Following this favorable presentation of the term “intifada,” Kuttab then initiates his whitewashing of reality, beginning with the First Intifada. From the start, the First Intifada was also defined by Palestinian violence against Israeli soldiers and civilians. However, what he does write about the Second Intifada is just as deceptive and misleading. That the Second Intifada was a grassroots response to the Sharon visit and subsequent Israeli violence. Thus, the Second Intifada belies Kuttab’s rosy image of an intifada as a righteous venture whose “target is not Jews but Israel’s illegal occupation.”Daoud Kuttab is not the only person to recently gaslight Jews and Israelis about what an “intifada” is.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 13, 2023 20:39 UTC