After Israeli forces shot her 15-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet last December, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian girl from Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, stood up to the occupying Israeli forces and was arrested and charged for slapping a soldier. The story of the activist went viral.

But what Ahed was fighting for was largely buried beneath sensationalized media representations of her.

via Why do we Revere Malala but Not Ahed Tamimi?