.@BarnardCollege have officially deleted a post that says the historic language of the land of Israel is Arabic. You can open the Old Testament and quickly see this isn’t true. But at Barnard, truth, facts, history, and research mean absolutely nothing.
Rather than address the… pic.twitter.com/toj4JrODAd
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 11, 2024
Not because the claim was fictional. That would have been “Islamophobic.”
John Pepple says
One can always respond by saying that Lebanese Arabic isn’t really Arabic, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written:
https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/no-lebanese-is-not-a-dialect-of-arabic-e95320c164c