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Israeli bill offered to remove Arabic as official language of Israel: Sign the petition to protest!

9/9/2014

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From Professors Elinor Saiegh-Haddad and Susan Rothstein: 


Dear Colleagues,

At the end of August 2014, a number of members of Knesset in Israel proposed a bill to make Hebrew the only official language of Israel, and thus to demote Arabic from its current status as an official language of the State. Arabic is the native language of over 20% of the population in Israel, and it has been spoken here continuously at least since the 7th century.  This proposal thus has both practical consequences and symbolic significance.

The Arabic Language Academy in Israel has circulated a general petition in Hebrew protesting this proposal. We feel that it is important, in addition, that linguists and experts in language research throughout the world add their voices to the protest.  The text of the petition is below. If you would like to add your name to the petition you can access it at  

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/arabiclanguage

When we have enough signatures, we would like to publish the text of the petition (in three languages) in Ha-aretz newspaper. If you are prepared to contribute to funding such an advertisement, please send an email toarabic.language.petition@gmail.com . We would need 50-60 people who are prepared to contribute 100 shekels each in order to fund the advertisement. If enough people are interested in contributing, we will let you know how to send the money.

Please sign the petition with your name and affiliation.

Please forward this to as many relevant people as possible.

Thank you!

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12/23/2019 09:13:15 am

It was so good of The Arabic Language Academy t come up with this petition. Well, there will always be reason why we they are doing this. Perhaps, they believe that arabic shouldn't be their language in the first place. Israel should have Hebrew as their language. But people have the choice, they can choose to sign the petition and be part of the movement or not. We are all entitled for our choices so we better choose what is best for us!

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