A pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia University in early May. Chants calling for"intifada" have become central at many demonstrations against the war in Gaza and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.NEW YORK – The chants at a recent pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University were loud and defiant.
For Eliana Goldin, a Jewish undergraduate and leader of a pro-Israel group at Columbia, the term “intifada” is inextricable from that violence. “For me, it just speaks to liberation,” she said. “To free Palestine from the apartheid regime, and the military occupation. For me it calls for freedom and for change.”Adrian Florido/NPR
But he also said the decision by pro-Palestinian protesters in the U.S. to use the Arabic word rather than to translate it is a deliberate choice – one with implications for both sides. Eliana Goldin, the Jewish undergraduate from Columbia, said she would like to think that her classmates who chant “intifada” at protests are not actually promoting violence against Jews. But she said it's hard to believe because on her campus she also heard chants she says are suggesting Israel’s erasure.
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