Foul language: The politicization of Arabic teaching in Israeli schools

Published: Oct. 9, 2015, 4 p.m.

Dr. Yonatan Mendel, the director of the Center for Jewish-Arab relations at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, is\xa0author of the recently published "The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel."\xa0Dr. Mendel explains to host Gilad Halpern why generations of Israeli high school students who specialized in Arabic are unable to string a sentence together.

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