Gabrielle Gelderman 🌅🌹

ALT White text over black background: ​​"Mistranslating the movement Language is being weaponized to malign the Palestinian liberation movement and justify an ongoing genocide." Beneath the text are three examples of mistranslations of "Jihad" and "Shaheed" in recent media.

ALT Black text over white background: Arabic words like “shaheed,” “jihad,” and “intifada” are regularly mistranslated or misconstrued in English-language media to stereotype and demonize Palestinians, painting them as terrorists and contributing to racist narratives that pro-Palestinian activism is inherently violent or antisemitic. This weaponization of language is a desperate tool to silence dissent in the U.S. and all across the west. But what do shaheed, jihad, and intifada really mean?”