"Misunderstood Resistance"
Terror Fan-Boy Mahmoud Khalil on CNN: “Globalize the Intifada Is Just a Call for Solidarity"
In a CNN interview, Khalil defended slogans tied to deadly uprisings and framed them as peaceful resistance — ignoring the violent legacy of the Second Intifada and the rhetoric’s role in fueling extremism.


Framing murder as peaceful resistance and death chants as misunderstood cries for justice, Mahmoud Khalil downplays decades of bloodshed and the global rise of antisemitic incitement and terrorism.
In a recent televised interview, Khalil attempted to recast death-chants as benign expressions of civil resistance. Speaking on CNN International, Khalil asserted that phrases like “From the river to the sea” and “Globalize the i/antisemitism/fontaines-dc-anti-israel-messagingntifada” are being unfairly demonized by critics who refuse to understand their “true meaning.”
According to Khalil, these chants are actually rooted in calls for "equality and freedom" - known to be cherished values in the muslim world..
“From the river to the sea,” he claimed, is merely a plea for justice for all people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. With regards to “Globalize the intifada,” a rallying cry frequently heard at protests around the world, rather than disavow the phrase or its violent historical implications, Khalil described it as a “call for global solidarity,” suggesting that the term intifada simply refers to a generic “uprising.”
He went on to frame the First and Second Intifadas which took the lives of 2000 civilians in suicide bombings, as movements of mass civil resistance against what he termed Israeli “apartheid” and “occupation.”
Khalil declined to elaborate on the violent components of these uprisings or acknowledge the casualties they caused. Instead, he downplayed the chants’ threatening tone, arguing that “uncomfortable” language is less concerning than military force.
“The real threat,” he said, “is not in the words chanted on the streets, but in the bombs that are falling on people.”