The word Intifada (sometimes Intifadah) means uprising. More specifically it means “shaking off,” but uprising is close enough. There were two Intifadas, one in 1987-1993, just called the Intifada. The other is called the Al Aqsa Intifada from 2000 to 2005. These were very different from each other.
I have two podcasts on these. One on the Intifada, one on the Al Aqsa Intifada.
I wrote two articles on Intifada Death Patterns. One of those, analyzing the first two years of fatalities, is available in Deep Blue. I also wrote a shorter newspaper analysis of deaths during the first Intifada. This was accepted for publication by a Jerusalem newspaper (Al Fajr) but was censored. Israel has two censors, a military censor and a political censor. My article was cleared for publication by the military censors but rejected by the political censors. This is odd because the information I used (individual data about age, gender, day of death, possible cause of death, location of death) was publicly available. I guess having that analysis available in a Palestinian newspaper was seen as too dangerous (although similar analysis was covered in the Israeli press on a regular basis, and Defense Minister Rabin issued similar analyses on a regular basis).
As far as I know, I am the only University of Michigan-Dearborn professor who ever had his research officially censored. (I have the draft newspaper article with the censor’s mark on it. It is framed and on my wall).
There are quite a few terms, places, names, etc. that you might not recognize. Here are some of them (in no particular order). You might read those before you listen.
Places: Ecce Homo; Dome of the Rock; Al Quds; Four Quarters; Via Dolorosa; Stations of the Cross; Jabalya, Gaza; Balata camp; Negev Desert; Hebron, Nablus, Jenin; Birzeit University;
People: Um Kulthum (famous Egyptian singer); Yitzhak Shamir; Ariel Sharon; Yitzhak Rabin; Yasser Arafat.
Other: Lechi/Stern Gang; extra-territorial entity; Status Quo Agreement; kill ratio;, Iron Fist; Hezbollah; Uprising of the Stones; Breaking Bones Policy; Biladi (my land, a song).
Note: The kill ratio in the Intifada was 23:1. Sometimes in a lecture someone’s brain goes off track and comes up with bizarre numbers.
Also Note: Al Aqsa refers to the mosque compound, Al Quds refers to Jerusalem. I might have got that backwards at one point.