User:JennyRosen/Feuer, Avital (2008) Who does this language belong to? Personal narratives of language claim and identity/hegemony of Hebrew

I believe that the view of the hegemony of Hebrew is rather problematic. First, Feuer totally ignores the presence of 1 million Palestinian Israelis, which has Arabic as there first language. Second, the multilingualism doesn’t apply equal to all language groups as there is divisions of status and power between for example Ethiopian immigrants who couldn’t read and write in the Amharic and also was treated as second hand citizens with a French speaking immigrant with a university education.

Further, the linkage between Hebrew and Zionism is rather invisible in the historic overview.