The 2014 Jerusalem unrest, sometimes referred as the Silent Intifada[1][2][3] (other names given include urban intifada,[1][4][5][6][7]Firecracker intifada, car intifada, Jerusalem intifada,[8] and Third intifada[3][5]) is a term occasionally used to refer to an increase in violence focused on Jerusalem in 2014, especially from July of that year.[9][10] Although the name "silent intifada," appears to have been coined in the summer of 2014,[clarification needed] suggestions that there should be or already is an incipient intifada had circulated among activists, columnists, journalists and on social media since 2011.[11][12][13] Commentators speculated about the varying utility to the Palestinian and Israeli left, right, and center of not only of naming, but of asserting or denying that there is or is about to be a new intifada.[8][14]
By some estimates,[clarification needed] more than 150 attacks occurred in July and August 2014.[15] By October some news sources, and Israeli politicians from both the far right and far left,[16] were referring to the wave of attacks as a Third Intifada[17] (following the First Intifada from 1987–93, and the Second Intifada from 2000–05), although many journalists and Israeli analysts in the security establishment deny the events have amounted to a full scale intifada.[8][14][18][19]
^Nathan Thrall, 'Rage in Jerusalem,'London Review of Books Vol. 36 No. 23 4 December 2014, pages 19-21.'The current upsurge in protests and violence has been called the silent intifada, the individual intifada, the children's intifada, the firecracker intifada, the car intifada, the run-over intifada, the Jerusalem intifada and the third intifada. But what it most closely resembles isn't the First (1987-93) or the Second (2000-05) Intifada but the surge in unco-ordinated, leaderless violence that preceded the largely non-lethal protests in the early part of the First Intifada.'
^Daniel K. Eisenbud (October 28, 2014). "Jerusalem's Silent Intifada Is Anything But Silent". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 2, 2014. the only issue that two of the city's most outspoken and diametrically opposed politicians can agree on is that the violence is indeed another intifada
^"Hamas calls for 'Day of Rage' in West Bank, Jerusalem". i24 News. November 21, 2014. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014. Hamas's call for a "Day of Rage" against Israel [...] implored Palestinians to take to the streets "in solidarity with the Aksa Mosque and Jerusalem intifada.