Lexington Herald-Leader · Lexington, Ky. · 20 August 2018
CP-2018-047
New Israeli law creates more division, conflict
BY H.D. URIEL SMITH
How this transcription was made
Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping. Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “Lexington Herald Leader”. Legibility fair; any passage that could not be read is omitted rather than reconstructed.
Context added by this archive
2018 GROUP. Headline phrase for the law: 'New Israeli law' only - the headline names neither 'nation-state' nor 'Jewish', and names no one who loses anything. The phrase 'Jewish nation-state law' DOES appear, in the photo caption.
ARABIC DEMOTION: yes, and in the caption rather than buried - 'which downgrades the standing of Arabic from an official to a “special” language.' PALESTINIANS NAMED AS AFFECTED: the caption's term is 'Israeli Arabs'; in the body the author's term is 'the Palestinian Arabs', in the sentence (read at 6x, not transcribed into the excerpt because its surrounding paragraph could not be read continuously) that the law 'has placed the Palestinian Arabs under an apartheid system.' That is the only use of 'apartheid' by a named individual writer in the batch, and it is a Lexington rabbi writing it.
Worth a re-scan specifically to recover that paragraph verbatim. PHOTO CAPTION (verbatim): “Israeli Arabs and their supporters protest in Tel Aviv on Aug. 11 against Israel's Jewish nation-state law, which downgrades the standing of Arabic from an official to a “special” language.”
Cite this clipping
"New Israeli law creates more division, conflict," Lexington Herald-Leader, 20 August 2018. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2018-047. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2018-047
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