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Do you have a link to an article in Arabic where they incite violence? I've spent a while translating various articles on the Al Jazeera Arabic site from Arabi

by A1kmm 2y ago

Do you have a link to an article in Arabic where they incite violence? I've spent a while translating various articles on the Al Jazeera Arabic site from Arabic to English with mistral-7b. Everything seemed to be very fact based, and was emphasising things like civilian deaths, which aligns to what I'd consider public interest. The Arabic text does consistently use the term شهيد (martyr) to describe Palestinian civilian casualties in Gaza, which is the closest thing to biased language I found across multiple articles about Israel and Palestine - but I think that is normal in Arabic for describing even non-combatant casualties and not necessarily reflective of bias given Arabic conventions.

int_19h 2y ago
It's normalized enough that even the notoriously secular SDF in Syria uses that term for their own fighters, and not just in Arabic publications, but also in Kurdish ones.
bitcurious 2y ago
> https://www.memri.org/reports/al-jazeera-arabic-qatari-owned-tv-channel-promotes-islamist-terrorism-worldwide-%E2%80%93-updated https://www.memri.org/reports/al-jazeera-arabic-qatari-owned... This is obviously a source with a considerable bias, but they link to many concerning examples of Al Jazeera reporting. I personally don’t speak Arabic but anecdotally I’ve heard that the translations are accurate, the bias is manifest in choosing what to translate. This example was especially concerning, exacerbating civilian deaths: > Al-Jazeera Fabricates Information Designed To Thwart Israel's Instructions To The Gaza Population >Al-Jazeera broadcast footage of bodies of civilians strewn over a road, presenting them as victims of an Israeli attack against people who had abided by the IDF instructions to evacuate to southern Gaza.[91] Israel in fact had secured safe passage to the south for those civilians who wished to go there, while Hamas exerted pressure on them to remain put in order to use civilians as human shields.[92]

by A1kmm 2y ago

int_19h 2y ago

It's normalized enough that even the notoriously secular SDF in Syria uses that term for their own fighters, and not just in Arabic publications, but also in Kurdish ones.

bitcurious 2y ago

> https://www.memri.org/reports/al-jazeera-arabic-qatari-owned-tv-channel-promotes-islamist-terrorism-worldwide-%E2%80%93-updated https://www.memri.org/reports/al-jazeera-arabic-qatari-owned... This is obviously a source with a considerable bias, but they link to many concerning examples of Al Jazeera reporting. I personally don’t speak Arabic but anecdotally I’ve heard that the translations are accurate, the bias is manifest in choosing what to translate. This example was especially concerning, exacerbating civilian deaths: > Al-Jazeera Fabricates Information Designed To Thwart Israel's Instructions To The Gaza Population >Al-Jazeera broadcast footage of bodies of civilians strewn over a road, presenting them as victims of an Israeli attack against people who had abided by the IDF instructions to evacuate to southern Gaza.[91] Israel in fact had secured safe passage to the south for those civilians who wished to go there, while Hamas exerted pressure on them to remain put in order to use civilians as human shields.[92]