Intifada in a sentence

They had familiar messages, ones I’d heard during the First Intifada of the late 1980s, in the Second Intifada twenty years ago, and at other times of trouble for Palestinians.

Created during the Second Intifada to bolster the organization's militant standing vis-à-vis the rival Hamas movement, which had taken the lead in attacks on Israel after 1993, and was gaining rapidly in popularity with the advent of the Intifada.

An entire Palestinian generation had already forgotten the heavy price of the Intifada.

But that’s unlikely; many Jews and Israelis have real reasons to hear “globalize the intifada” as a threatening chant.

By contrast, Jewish students currently are walking past protests, often involving faculty members, to attend classes and take exams in courses taught by those same professors who were just chanting for intifada, or the Palestinian uprising.

If they’re chanting, “Intifada, revolution,” or “From the river to the sea” — which to me sounds like calling for the survival of one people at the expense of another people — that then can be read as antisemitic.

Imad Faluji, the Palestinian Authority communications minister, later admitted that the intifada had been planned months earlier after Yasser Arafat’s return from peace talks at Camp David, where he rejected Israel’s offer of statehood.

In 2015, at the beginning of what is known as the “Knife Intifada,” Netanyahu forbade MKs and cabinet ministers from going to the Temple Mount because he did not want to exacerbate an already very tense situation.

In another song, children dance, throw stones, and sing: “In Gaza and in the Balata refugee camp, in Jerusalem, and in Ramallah, we rose up in an Intifada.

Israel did have relations with the African countries of Niger and Mauritania, but they were severed during the Second Intifada of 2002 and the Gaza war of 2008 respectively.

Ten days later, a pro-Palestinian student walkout against Jews and Israel, and chanting in support of an intifada.

The Intifada started when Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, a holy site for Muslims and Jews who know it as the Temple Mount.

The premise of the question is that “intifada,” which essentially means “uprising,” is the equivalent of an attempt at genocide at Jews.

There isn’t going to be an intifada as long as the Palestinian Authority is strong enough to be able to deliver basic services and to deploy its security forces in most of the West Bank.

The second intifada was what hardened many Israelis' hearts.

The young Palestinians who welcome an intifada are too young to remember the last one.

According to the IDF, 942 collaborators from Gaza and the Palestinian Authority were shot during the 1987 intifada, murdered by their own brethren in broad daylight in the town square in front of hundreds of locals as a warning.

And slogans like “rape is resistance,”globalize the intifada”” have become commonplace.

A person prepares a sign reading ‘Intifada Revolution’ at an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Washington campus, April 29, 2024, in Seattle, Washington.

At the hearing, Gay had testified that on-campus calls for “intifada” are “personally abhorrent to me,” but stopped short of saying they would violate the university’s rules.