It is impossible to study Arabic
at universities in Israel!
This is wrong.
See comments below.
The situation is much subtler.
Dr David J. Heinemann writes to Haaretz:
'Sadly, it has been forgotten that when the State of Israel was first formed Arabic was accepted and endorsed by the forming agreement as an equal language along with Hebrew. All road signs were to be in both languages, and Arabic was to also be the language used together with Hebrew as a SPOKEN language of the Knesset.
That this has all changed is the result of the prominence of the Ashkanazei over the Sephardi, together with the dominance of the culture of the U.S.A. May this use of Arabic continue!'
Israel's main problem, really, is not other Middle-Eastern states or the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, but the Ashkenazy immigrants (pouring in from Eastern Europe and Russia since 1990), backward-thinking, bigoted, right-wing and anti-democratic. They are Israel's Trumpeters, who may actually destroy the overpopulated country in which they have 'pitched their tents', to use the Biblical phrase.
4 comments:
I beg to differ:
e.g.
https://arabic.biu.ac.il/en
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/Middle-East-Studies/Pages/Arabic-Studies.aspx
https://all2.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/
M.
I posted this having heard the assertion uttered by an apparently-reliable guest on a BBC programme. I should have checked. I shall remove this blog.
Having done some cursory 'research' today it appears that Arabic as an academic field had been kind of neglected in Israel in the past:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-06-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/a-revolution-in-arabic-studies-is-shaking-up-israeli-universities/00000181-1e66-db47-a5dd-9f6f7fb40000
I hope you can read it, it might be behind a paywall that my adblocker blocks.
M.
You can easily avoid that pay-wall by giving Haaretz an e-mail address.
See my latest addition to the post.
Everyone forgets that Israel was founded after a 'wave of terrorism' reminiscent of the founding of the Irish Free State (which was followed by a civil war). The change of nomenclature from 'Jew' to 'Israeli' was made possible by a racist agenda which ignored the fact that the word 'Semitic' applies also to (equally-circumcised) Arabs as the Abrahamic 'sons of Shem', which is why Islam accepts what Christians call the Old Testament.
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