Tally Gotliv wants Arabic speakers to feel unwelcome in our country and in the halls of our government.
Sorry Tally, Arabic is part of our national heritage as Jews and it is part of our national future as Zionists, and the millions of Arabic speakers in this country should speak loud and proud, until and beyond the point when it is restored as a national language and our children learn it together with Hebrew from elementary school onward.
The forces of racism and fascism traffic in fear and intimidation, and they’re desperate to hang on to the power we give them.
It falls on us especially, those committed to our laws and traditions, to ensure that our service and our work do not unintentionally sustain the forces of evil subverting those very laws and traditions.