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I think it extremely sad that people conflate Intifada with violent means.
It is a word that cannot be translated effectively. In the Palestinian context it was students who both wanted to separate themselves from violent uprisings, and to legitimise a protest as a mirror of Gandhi's tenets.
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As such, projecting a meaning on a chant in a march organised by the definitively peace-seeking Palestine Solidarity Campaign can only be seen as an attempt to delegitimise protests, akin to Braverman's/ this government's attempts to do so
I've asked people to read before posting- but it seems an unwillingness to do so remains.
The conflation of the term stems from the tail-end of both of the first and second intifadas, and specifically the second, instigated by enough indiscriminate killing of unarmed civilians by the IDF that Chirac even commented that in no way could "he convince [anyone] that the Palestinians are the aggressors".
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