What's in a name
When you read this, remember that a college president can be pilloried for calling his team "Braves," or "Indians." I used to work at Stanford.
And that an American politician practically gets his guts drawn out on a windlass for even using the word "crusade" in a sentence, even in a non-religious context.
"Who cares? Why are people so sensitive?" said Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, a professor at Georgetown University. "Intifada is something that Muslims and Palestinians all approve of. It means 'just get off my back.'
"All?"