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Parliament member Ahmad Tibi of the Arab-Israeli Ra'am-Ta'al party arrives at the courtroom of Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2012, prior to a discussion in a petition Tibi filed with the High Court of Justice against the Knesset Presidency over the rejection of an addendum to the Nakba Law, which proposes prohibiting government funding for organizations and educational institution that publicly denounce the Nakba. Nakba (catastrophe) is the name given by the Arab world to the founding of the State of Israel.