New York Times · 2 December 1980

CP-1980-021

Israel bans a conference on Arab citizens

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“‘It’s a black day for the future of democracy in Israel,’ said Tewfik Toubi, an Arab member of Parliament.”

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Tewfik Toubi sat in the Knesset for forty-one years. Here he is quoted on a banned conference, in a story mostly about who met Yasir Arafat in Sofia. He is a member of the Israeli Parliament describing the Israeli Government, and the paper identifies him by ethnicity before office.

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"Israel bans a conference on Arab citizens," New York Times, 2 December 1980. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-021. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-021

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