Looked up that word, which I had never heard before. Was interested to see Joni Mitchell wrote a song by the same name.
Suggesting left wing political aims going far back, if you ask me. Why would she write a song like that?
“Why would she write a song like that?”
I think it relates to the Arabic “journey”, the song is supposedly about a breakup with a lover. I don’t think she’s channeling jihad, but uses the word in its broader sense.
But to a jihadist, hejira means you, your brothers and male cousins and all their pals moving to an area and declaring it to be muslim ground.