Intifada

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Intifada (انتفاضة intifāḍa(t)) is an Arabic word which literally means "shaking off", though it is usually translated into English as "rebellion" or "uprising". According to a 2007 article in the Washington Post, the word "crystallized in its current Arabic meaning during the first Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s and early 1990s". It is often used as a term for popular resistance to oppression.^[1]

Intifada may also refer to these historical events:

• March Intifada, a Leftist uprising against the British colonial presence in Bahrain in March 1965.
• Zemla Intifada against Spanish rule in Spanish Sahara, beginning in 1970.
• First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule from 1987 to 1993.
• 1990s Intifada, an uprising in Bahrain demanding a return to democratic rule.
• 1991 uprisings in Iraq against Saddam Hussein.
• Cedar Revolution or Intifada of Independence, the events in Lebanon after Rafiq Hariri's 2005 assassination.
• Independence Intifada, demonstrations and riots in Morocco and Western Sahara beginning in May 2005.
• French Intifada, an occasional American term for riots in France in the fall of 2005.
• Second, or al-Aqsa Intifada, the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in September 2000.

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