Intifada
Arabic term for an uprising or rebellion / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة) is an Arabic word. In Arabic, intifada means "shaking off".[1] An intifada can be seen as a way for people to "shake off" a power that is oppressing them, a so called "uprising" against that power. The term Intifada is most famous for the two Palestinian uprisings in the 1980s and 2000s. These two intifadas are considered part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There were also other intifadas outside of Palestine, the protests in Bahrain against British presence from 1965 until 1972 are called the 'March Intifada'.