Why Arabic is flowering in Israel even as it’s officially demoted
It was advertised as the largest Arabic lesson in the world.
On a summer night in a square in central Tel Aviv, several thousand Israelis heeded the call to attend and found themselves repeating a series of Arabic words and phrases.
It was, essentially, a political act.
The lesson was convened as a protest against the controversial new Nation-State law, which, among other measures, removed Arabic from the list of official languages in Israel. Critics of the law argued that the snub was not just
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