Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة, romanized: intifāḍah) is an Arabic word for a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It can be used to refer to an uprising against oppression.[1][2]
The word intifada was first used[clarification needed] in modern times in 1952, when Iraqi parties took to the streets to protest their monarchy, which was known as the Iraqi Intifada.[3] Other later examples include the Western Sahara's Zemla Intifada, the First Sahrawi Intifada, and the Second Sahrawi Intifada.[4] In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict context, it refers to uprising by Palestinian people against Israeli occupation or Israel, involving both violent and nonviolent methods of resistance, including the First Intifada (1987–1993) and the Second Intifada (2000–2005).[5][6][7]
In English-language usage, the word primarily refers to Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation.[8][9][10][11] In Arabic-language usage, any uprising can be referred to as an intifada, including the 1916 Easter Rising,[12] the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,[13] and the 1949 Jeju uprising.[14]
The word intifada means to throw off something that oppresses.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Etymologically, intifada denotes a shaking-off, but in contemporary Arabic, it means an uprising: For instance, a 1952 uprising in Iraq against the Hashemite monarchy is referred to in Arabic as an intifada. But in English, including in English-language dictionaries and encyclopedias, the word refers primarily to two periods of sustained Palestinian revolt, the First and Second Intifadas.
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