Political scientists have noted a world-wide decline in liberal democracy over the last decade or so, in nations ranging from Brazil to Poland to the Philippines. Freedom House, the human rights monitoring organization, has since 2005 recorded consistently lower scores on political and civil rights world-wide. Is this trend also evident in Israel?
I never understand the claim that the Nation-State Law "demoted" the status of Arabic when the very next clause after the one you refer to says "This clause does not harm the status given to the Arabic language before this law came into effect." That aside, I have never been clear on this: Has there ever been a law that explicitly made Arabic "official"?
I never understand the claim that the Nation-State Law "demoted" the status of Arabic when the very next clause after the one you refer to says "This clause does not harm the status given to the Arabic language before this law came into effect." That aside, I have never been clear on this: Has there ever been a law that explicitly made Arabic "official"?