Strong signs of anti-semitism in the BDS movement

[oberliner]

131. It's funny how you caution people about sources, and then cite Wikipedia as if its legitimate

When, of course, anyone can post anything on that site.

This Wikipedia entry is particularly ridiculous. Intifada is not the Arabic name for "the people's right to protest against injustice" in spite of what somebody typed onto this Wikipedia page, sourced to a single article written in German in 2003.

Intifada refers to the Palestinian uprisings of the 1980s and beyond.

In fact, one of the other sources cited elsewhere in the Wikipedia page, a book entitled "Intifada" uses the term only in that context and makes no mention of it having any other wider meaning. In fact that book specifically talks about how the word gained "iconic resonance worldwide" beginning in December of 1987.

Some have applied the term to more recent unrelated events in much the same way that the term apartheid is nowadays applied to things that are unrelated to its original usage.

Do you know what "thawra" means in Arabic? Do you know the difference in meaning between that term and the term "intifada"? Do you know why the term thawra was used in the 1930s but the term intifada was used in the 1980s?

Answer truthfully, without using Google or Wikipedia or any other online site.

I ask because I sense that you have not read any actual books on the history of the conflict and are simply relying on websites for your information, which I would caution you against doing if this is a topic you are truly and deeply interested in.