Intifada means "struggle" and is taken as a "bring the struggle global" in a polite phrase.
"Globalize the Intifada" is used by some for that. The downide is "The Intifada" was likewise used by Hamas (IE: the second Intifada) for a series of widespread terrorist attacks that were largely on civilians.
Calls to globalize that are seen as threatening when "Intifada" has been used a lot for violence on Jews. Like people can't think Jews haven't noticed protests with leftists waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags, chanting "INTIFADA" and "Settlers Go Home." That they didn't notice delirious joy after October 7 or the reactions to the DC Shooting and the Boulder attack. Those aren't the only time that Jews, globally, have been the targets of violence intended to "globalize" the fight against Israel.
And groups like Hamas and Hezbollah have both threatened and called for such global attacks. So when your slogan is "Globalize the Intifada" Jews are going to hear that as a call to physical violence. So when Zohran says "it's complicated"....to a lot of Jews? No it isn't. And when he says that, it unequivocally harms him
Eesh.
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