It does not mean indiscriminate violence or hatred.
It means a people rising to shake off control and domination.
The First Intifada (1987–1993) took place almost entirely inside the occupied Palestinian territories — Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
It was not a war against Israel as a state, but a mass civilian uprising under military occupation.
⠀
It included:
• protests, strikes, and boycotts
• civil disobedience
• grassroots organizing
• and at times, stone-throwing by youths confronting armed soldiers
⠀
It came after two decades of military rule, where Palestinians had:
• no political sovereignty
• no vote over the authority governing them
• severe restrictions on movement and land
• widespread arrests under military law
⠀
✨ Uprisings do not occur in free societies.
They occur where people are controlled without rights.
⠀
⚠️ Detention, violence, and the early Intifada
During this period, Israel established detention camps such as Ansar II in Gaza (1986–1987).
Reporting from the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP, 1988) documented that:
⠀
• large numbers of young Palestinian detainees were held in harsh conditions
• many were already handcuffed and under arrest
• soldiers beat detainees using clubs, rifle butts, and boots
• teenagers were so severely injured they required hospitalization and surgery
⠀
Israeli media at the time also reported:
• systematic beatings
• lack of legal protections
• hunger strikes by detainees protesting conditions
⠀
💥 During this same period, then–Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin endorsed a policy described as “force, might, and beatings.”
Reporting by the The New York Times (1988) documented soldiers breaking the bones of suspected stone-throwers, which became widely known as the “broken bones” policy.
⠀
⛓️ Detention without charge & military courts
For decades, Israel has used administrative detention, allowing Palestinians to be held:
• without charge
• without trial
• for renewable periods of months or even years
⠀
Thousands of Palestinians have been detained this way.
When charges are brought, they are tried in military courts with conviction rates widely reported to be around 95–99%.
⠀
Organizations including:
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• B'Tselem
have documented for decades:
• torture and ill-treatment
• coercive interrogations
• denial of due process
• detention of children
⠀
🧱 Apartheid: what major organizations say
A growing number of major human rights organizations — including Israeli ones — have concluded that Israel operates a system that amounts to apartheid under international law.
⠀
• B'Tselem (2021):
“A regime of Jewish supremacy… from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
⠀
• Human Rights Watch (2021):
Israeli authorities are committing “the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”
⠀
• Amnesty International (2022):
A “system of oppression and domination” against Palestinians.
⠀
This view is echoed by prominent figures:
⠀
📘 Jimmy Carter, in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid:
“The situation in the occupied territories is one of the worst examples of apartheid.”
⠀
🕊️ Nelson Mandela:
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
⠀
✝️ Desmond Tutu:
“I have witnessed the apartheid system” in the occupied Palestinian territory.
⠀
Scholars such as Ilan Pappé, Avi Shlaim, and Norman Finkelstein have also described Israeli rule in similar terms.
⠀
🧠 The bigger picture
When you combine:
• military rule without political rights
• mass arrests and detention without charge
• documented abuse and torture
• separate legal systems
• near-total conviction rates
⠀
…it forms what many experts describe as a system of institutionalized domination.
⠀
🔑 The core truth
✨ No population rises up without cause.
The First Intifada was not the beginning of violence —
it was the result of prolonged control, dispossession, and lack of rights.
⠀
Or more simply:
👉 If people are truly free, there is nothing to “shake off.”
Thank you for sharing … informative … most Americans have no idea what is going on in the Middle East … they have been brainwashed … thinking that their proxy war conducted with the veil of Israeli military occupation is somehow okay … this American has seen enough and wants to do something about it … I am in the process of organizing local agencies to raise money and awareness to the plight experienced by young and old Palestinians suffer extreme conditions under Jewish laws … we shall see …will try to amplify this message in my home state of FL not far from Donad J Trump and his cast of clowns … to learn more, go to http://www.swimwithgaza.org
Thank you Truth4Justice1948!…Your quick overview is very helpful. Not sure how to save it, but helpful nonetheless. Thank you for raising attention to the plight of Palestinians have suffered… engaged in for decades…. Helpful, revealing, concise, timely, and needed.
Personally, I wish it wasn’t true, but it is. The plight of Palestinians is real and been going on for years (decades). Seeing is believing. Personally, I can no longer look away… Seen enough. It makes me sad and disgusted what has been going on for decades. It is as if America is waking up from a coma.
In a twisted way Donald John Trump is good for America. DJT forces us all to look our darkest areas of our lives. It can make us better versions of ourselves, if we allow it to happen.
Personally, I have seen people heal from the deepest wounds, but it takes courage for us to face our darkest areas and transform into lightness (like butterflies). God, I believe created butterflies, to remind us all that lightness and healing is inside all of us.
And if we are all honest, we have both light and dark areas in our lives. It is what makes us human.
Whatever tragedies we have experienced, we can’t turn away, but if there is something to learn. That is called ‘courage’ and that is a beautiful thing. To me the most interesting people have suffered or experienced a traumatic event(s).
Everyone and anyone with a moral conscience, should be outraged, and disgusted by what goes on in Palestine. But we can no longer look away and pretend it is not happening. It is genocide happening right before our eyes, and looking away does not make the issues go away. We are called to do something. Doing nothing is no longer an option.
Personally, I believe most people are good and decent people. No one is ever perfect. I believe Justice will prevail in the end.
Now that I was forced into retirement due to medical reasons, my intention is to raise awareness to corruption going on for years and giving money to worthy causes, like yours.
More specifically, I made a commitment to raise money and awareness for worthy causes such as the plight in current-day Palestine.
I enjoy swimming. My intent is to swim, and raise awareness to the plight of what goes on in day of present day Palestine. My plan is to raise awareness within my social circle; which includes family, friends, fellow swimmers, and acquaintances, and anyone who can and is willing to donate money; to raise money for food, medical supplies, medical procedures. The plan is to raise awareness to what has gone on for decades. That is the intent. That is my hopeFor as long as I am able to swim, I will dedicate 1x per week to swim, to raise awareness to the plight of Palestinians. I am not perfect, some say I am idealistic, but I can longer sit and do nothing. I have many family and friends who are well meaning, but don’t see the hypocrisy that we are living in. I feel free, knowing I am doing something good for people whose only crime was to live on holy and sacred land.
I can no longer sit any longer and do nothing …
Unfortunately, most Americans are numb to the plight of Palestinians. Many people work two or three jobs, just try to pay for their own expenses, in the richest most powerful military and economic nation in the world.
The US government is engaged in a proxy war and spending millions of dollars (US taxpayers) on this war of choice. No bombs being reigned down on US soil, but Americans are led to believe that a emergency is occurring; that engaging Americas human treasure is justified, which it is not; no threat of war here in the US ; but DJT has been led to believe by Netanyahu and the Israeli regime, that the Palestinians are a threat. The US is watching as the Israeli regime engages in genocide. My girlfriend supports me and that is all I need. I have limited financial resources, limited physical ability, but I like swimming so that is what I will do.
Thank you for education on the movie on the plight of Palestinians.
God bless you and everyone at Manufacturing Dissent .. not sure how I found you … I have no kids, but this gives me purpose . Stay committed, we are alone… Be safe … 🇺🇸🇵🇸🇺🇳☮️
Its a while since I've seen this documentary and as someone who saw the Intifada from December 1987 up close can vouch for its authenticity.
It also highlights what INTIFADA means at a time when the Starmer government and its advisors are trying to equate "Intifada" with Islamic Fundamentalism and thus bring in sweeping legislation to ban or curb pro-Palestinian marches. "Globalize the Intifada" is not an incitement to carry out anti-Semitic attacks such as false flag fire-bombings of synagogues, Jewish schools and synagogues in London, in the run up to council elections and as Starmer prepares to sell involvement in an illegal war against Iran to the British public.
What I MOST recall about the first Intifada is the prominent role played by secular Left groups particularly including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with whom I was closely linked at the time. In fact, the PFLP and DFLP INITIATED the Intifada in Gaza. These mass movements frightened Yasser Arafat in his headquarters in Yoonis Street, Tunis, who was more at home courting autocrats and enemies of the working class in the Arab League to support the Palestinian cause than full bore socialist revolution.
In Gaza, Arafat USED Hamas, a split from the Muslim Brotherhood in 1968, to attack the Palestinian Left and hi-jack the Intifada, while subordinating the mass movement to diplomatic initiatives at the Arab League summit that led to the acceptance of a "two nations peace plan" by the 19th Palestine National Congress in Tunis in 1988. This has since proved a bill of goods and Hamas later turned on Arafat and the PNA for being collaborators.
Hamas is a deeply reactionary organisation with no vision or mandate for social emancipation or socialism. It is NOT a fundamentalist organisation in the sense of al Qaeda or ISIS and has never engaged in terrorist activity in Britain and Europe and never will. They are Salafist, not Fundamentalist. Nonetheless Hamas are no friend of socialism or the Left and Hamas has served as guns for hire for just about everyone in the past, from the Gulf Arabs to Arafat and the Zionists themselves.
Operation Al Aqsa Flood, for example, was pure nuts, albeit provoked by the annexation of East Jerusalem and escalated Zionist violence on the West Bank with which the current cycle of violence in the region began. Al Aqsa Mosque gave the Zionists the pretext, but not the justification to wage the genocide that is the Gaza holocaust and prepare to annex the West Bank under the shadow of an illegal war with Iran.
Watching this documentary reminds me of a different kind of Palestinian resistance in my youth, when I had a picture of Leila Khaled on my wall. Following the first Arab Spring, which confounded those who said that working class struggle has no place in the Arab Middle East, the Palestinian Left needs to reconnect with the class struggle of the past. A socialist secular Palestine is possible, undivided and indeed from the river to the sea, as part of a wider settlement that would be a Socialist United States of the Middle East.
I remember in Africa when we used to buy oranges, olive oil, Basil and Medjool dates written on them "Product of Palestine".
I pray for the day that these genocidal psychopaths do the same exodus that did in 1947/48 from Europe to Palestine but this time from Palestine to Europe forever! After all, they do not belong to the Middle East but to Europe where their DNA comes from.
I’ve read the history from several angles. The “intifadas” are just another example of what happens when you have a population of Arab - Muslims who are brainwashed, brain-dead, unproductive, and without any positive motivation to do anything that is a net positive for themselves for their people and for humanity. They are a waste, not their fault but some of them see it and they get out and they are no longer Muslims that is the key to ending the suffering..
European jews whose family members were treated most inhumanely, died in concentration and gas chambers, didn't learn anything from their experiences in Europe. The palestinis welcomed them but their hospitality resulted in stealing everything from them. The United Nations resolution was set aside by israelli government and Israelis. Coexistence was never possible with the European jews although before 1948 jews, Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together
No Jack, it is the western media that has you and your ilk brainwashed. Did you actually watch this devastating doco? Do you see what's happening in Gaza still today? Probably not because your mind is made up - by the western media...
✊ “Intifada” — what it actually means
Intifada (انتفاضة) literally means “shaking off.”
It does not mean indiscriminate violence or hatred.
It means a people rising to shake off control and domination.
The First Intifada (1987–1993) took place almost entirely inside the occupied Palestinian territories — Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
It was not a war against Israel as a state, but a mass civilian uprising under military occupation.
⠀
It included:
• protests, strikes, and boycotts
• civil disobedience
• grassroots organizing
• and at times, stone-throwing by youths confronting armed soldiers
⠀
It came after two decades of military rule, where Palestinians had:
• no political sovereignty
• no vote over the authority governing them
• severe restrictions on movement and land
• widespread arrests under military law
⠀
✨ Uprisings do not occur in free societies.
They occur where people are controlled without rights.
⠀
⚠️ Detention, violence, and the early Intifada
During this period, Israel established detention camps such as Ansar II in Gaza (1986–1987).
Reporting from the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP, 1988) documented that:
⠀
• large numbers of young Palestinian detainees were held in harsh conditions
• many were already handcuffed and under arrest
• soldiers beat detainees using clubs, rifle butts, and boots
• teenagers were so severely injured they required hospitalization and surgery
⠀
Israeli media at the time also reported:
• systematic beatings
• lack of legal protections
• hunger strikes by detainees protesting conditions
⠀
💥 During this same period, then–Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin endorsed a policy described as “force, might, and beatings.”
Reporting by the The New York Times (1988) documented soldiers breaking the bones of suspected stone-throwers, which became widely known as the “broken bones” policy.
⠀
⛓️ Detention without charge & military courts
For decades, Israel has used administrative detention, allowing Palestinians to be held:
• without charge
• without trial
• for renewable periods of months or even years
⠀
Thousands of Palestinians have been detained this way.
When charges are brought, they are tried in military courts with conviction rates widely reported to be around 95–99%.
⠀
Organizations including:
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• B'Tselem
have documented for decades:
• torture and ill-treatment
• coercive interrogations
• denial of due process
• detention of children
⠀
🧱 Apartheid: what major organizations say
A growing number of major human rights organizations — including Israeli ones — have concluded that Israel operates a system that amounts to apartheid under international law.
⠀
• B'Tselem (2021):
“A regime of Jewish supremacy… from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
⠀
• Human Rights Watch (2021):
Israeli authorities are committing “the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”
⠀
• Amnesty International (2022):
A “system of oppression and domination” against Palestinians.
⠀
This view is echoed by prominent figures:
⠀
📘 Jimmy Carter, in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid:
“The situation in the occupied territories is one of the worst examples of apartheid.”
⠀
🕊️ Nelson Mandela:
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
⠀
✝️ Desmond Tutu:
“I have witnessed the apartheid system” in the occupied Palestinian territory.
⠀
Scholars such as Ilan Pappé, Avi Shlaim, and Norman Finkelstein have also described Israeli rule in similar terms.
⠀
🧠 The bigger picture
When you combine:
• military rule without political rights
• mass arrests and detention without charge
• documented abuse and torture
• separate legal systems
• near-total conviction rates
⠀
…it forms what many experts describe as a system of institutionalized domination.
⠀
🔑 The core truth
✨ No population rises up without cause.
The First Intifada was not the beginning of violence —
it was the result of prolonged control, dispossession, and lack of rights.
⠀
Or more simply:
👉 If people are truly free, there is nothing to “shake off.”
⠀
Thank you for sharing … informative … most Americans have no idea what is going on in the Middle East … they have been brainwashed … thinking that their proxy war conducted with the veil of Israeli military occupation is somehow okay … this American has seen enough and wants to do something about it … I am in the process of organizing local agencies to raise money and awareness to the plight experienced by young and old Palestinians suffer extreme conditions under Jewish laws … we shall see …will try to amplify this message in my home state of FL not far from Donad J Trump and his cast of clowns … to learn more, go to http://www.swimwithgaza.org
https://swimwithgaza.com/
https://swimwithgaza.com/
Got to start somewhere … too much talk, not enough action … as my late father would say…
Thank you Truth4Justice1948!…Your quick overview is very helpful. Not sure how to save it, but helpful nonetheless. Thank you for raising attention to the plight of Palestinians have suffered… engaged in for decades…. Helpful, revealing, concise, timely, and needed.
Personally, I wish it wasn’t true, but it is. The plight of Palestinians is real and been going on for years (decades). Seeing is believing. Personally, I can no longer look away… Seen enough. It makes me sad and disgusted what has been going on for decades. It is as if America is waking up from a coma.
In a twisted way Donald John Trump is good for America. DJT forces us all to look our darkest areas of our lives. It can make us better versions of ourselves, if we allow it to happen.
Personally, I have seen people heal from the deepest wounds, but it takes courage for us to face our darkest areas and transform into lightness (like butterflies). God, I believe created butterflies, to remind us all that lightness and healing is inside all of us.
And if we are all honest, we have both light and dark areas in our lives. It is what makes us human.
Whatever tragedies we have experienced, we can’t turn away, but if there is something to learn. That is called ‘courage’ and that is a beautiful thing. To me the most interesting people have suffered or experienced a traumatic event(s).
Everyone and anyone with a moral conscience, should be outraged, and disgusted by what goes on in Palestine. But we can no longer look away and pretend it is not happening. It is genocide happening right before our eyes, and looking away does not make the issues go away. We are called to do something. Doing nothing is no longer an option.
Personally, I believe most people are good and decent people. No one is ever perfect. I believe Justice will prevail in the end.
Now that I was forced into retirement due to medical reasons, my intention is to raise awareness to corruption going on for years and giving money to worthy causes, like yours.
More specifically, I made a commitment to raise money and awareness for worthy causes such as the plight in current-day Palestine.
I enjoy swimming. My intent is to swim, and raise awareness to the plight of what goes on in day of present day Palestine. My plan is to raise awareness within my social circle; which includes family, friends, fellow swimmers, and acquaintances, and anyone who can and is willing to donate money; to raise money for food, medical supplies, medical procedures. The plan is to raise awareness to what has gone on for decades. That is the intent. That is my hopeFor as long as I am able to swim, I will dedicate 1x per week to swim, to raise awareness to the plight of Palestinians. I am not perfect, some say I am idealistic, but I can longer sit and do nothing. I have many family and friends who are well meaning, but don’t see the hypocrisy that we are living in. I feel free, knowing I am doing something good for people whose only crime was to live on holy and sacred land.
I can no longer sit any longer and do nothing …
Unfortunately, most Americans are numb to the plight of Palestinians. Many people work two or three jobs, just try to pay for their own expenses, in the richest most powerful military and economic nation in the world.
The US government is engaged in a proxy war and spending millions of dollars (US taxpayers) on this war of choice. No bombs being reigned down on US soil, but Americans are led to believe that a emergency is occurring; that engaging Americas human treasure is justified, which it is not; no threat of war here in the US ; but DJT has been led to believe by Netanyahu and the Israeli regime, that the Palestinians are a threat. The US is watching as the Israeli regime engages in genocide. My girlfriend supports me and that is all I need. I have limited financial resources, limited physical ability, but I like swimming so that is what I will do.
Thank you for education on the movie on the plight of Palestinians.
God bless you and everyone at Manufacturing Dissent .. not sure how I found you … I have no kids, but this gives me purpose . Stay committed, we are alone… Be safe … 🇺🇸🇵🇸🇺🇳☮️
Its a while since I've seen this documentary and as someone who saw the Intifada from December 1987 up close can vouch for its authenticity.
It also highlights what INTIFADA means at a time when the Starmer government and its advisors are trying to equate "Intifada" with Islamic Fundamentalism and thus bring in sweeping legislation to ban or curb pro-Palestinian marches. "Globalize the Intifada" is not an incitement to carry out anti-Semitic attacks such as false flag fire-bombings of synagogues, Jewish schools and synagogues in London, in the run up to council elections and as Starmer prepares to sell involvement in an illegal war against Iran to the British public.
What I MOST recall about the first Intifada is the prominent role played by secular Left groups particularly including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with whom I was closely linked at the time. In fact, the PFLP and DFLP INITIATED the Intifada in Gaza. These mass movements frightened Yasser Arafat in his headquarters in Yoonis Street, Tunis, who was more at home courting autocrats and enemies of the working class in the Arab League to support the Palestinian cause than full bore socialist revolution.
In Gaza, Arafat USED Hamas, a split from the Muslim Brotherhood in 1968, to attack the Palestinian Left and hi-jack the Intifada, while subordinating the mass movement to diplomatic initiatives at the Arab League summit that led to the acceptance of a "two nations peace plan" by the 19th Palestine National Congress in Tunis in 1988. This has since proved a bill of goods and Hamas later turned on Arafat and the PNA for being collaborators.
Hamas is a deeply reactionary organisation with no vision or mandate for social emancipation or socialism. It is NOT a fundamentalist organisation in the sense of al Qaeda or ISIS and has never engaged in terrorist activity in Britain and Europe and never will. They are Salafist, not Fundamentalist. Nonetheless Hamas are no friend of socialism or the Left and Hamas has served as guns for hire for just about everyone in the past, from the Gulf Arabs to Arafat and the Zionists themselves.
Operation Al Aqsa Flood, for example, was pure nuts, albeit provoked by the annexation of East Jerusalem and escalated Zionist violence on the West Bank with which the current cycle of violence in the region began. Al Aqsa Mosque gave the Zionists the pretext, but not the justification to wage the genocide that is the Gaza holocaust and prepare to annex the West Bank under the shadow of an illegal war with Iran.
Watching this documentary reminds me of a different kind of Palestinian resistance in my youth, when I had a picture of Leila Khaled on my wall. Following the first Arab Spring, which confounded those who said that working class struggle has no place in the Arab Middle East, the Palestinian Left needs to reconnect with the class struggle of the past. A socialist secular Palestine is possible, undivided and indeed from the river to the sea, as part of a wider settlement that would be a Socialist United States of the Middle East.
I remember in Africa when we used to buy oranges, olive oil, Basil and Medjool dates written on them "Product of Palestine".
I pray for the day that these genocidal psychopaths do the same exodus that did in 1947/48 from Europe to Palestine but this time from Palestine to Europe forever! After all, they do not belong to the Middle East but to Europe where their DNA comes from.
I’ve read the history from several angles. The “intifadas” are just another example of what happens when you have a population of Arab - Muslims who are brainwashed, brain-dead, unproductive, and without any positive motivation to do anything that is a net positive for themselves for their people and for humanity. They are a waste, not their fault but some of them see it and they get out and they are no longer Muslims that is the key to ending the suffering..
European jews whose family members were treated most inhumanely, died in concentration and gas chambers, didn't learn anything from their experiences in Europe. The palestinis welcomed them but their hospitality resulted in stealing everything from them. The United Nations resolution was set aside by israelli government and Israelis. Coexistence was never possible with the European jews although before 1948 jews, Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together
No dummy It’s a Jew problem. Judaism is a child sacrifice cult.
You say they are brainwashed? Whose media machine brainwashed them? Jews own all the media. What they brainwashed about and who brainwashed them?
Jews hunt and kill kids. This sometimes gets a reaction.
No Jack, it is the western media that has you and your ilk brainwashed. Did you actually watch this devastating doco? Do you see what's happening in Gaza still today? Probably not because your mind is made up - by the western media...
FUCK YOU TO DEATH YOU PIECE OF TRASH. DEATH TO ALL ISRAELIS, AND IT IS COMMING BE CERTAIN OF THIS MOTHER FUCKER.
Dummy? You mfkr.