They're also separating "Chaouia of the Aures in Algeria" https://en.wal.unesco.org/countries/algeria/languages/chaoui... from "Chaouia of the Aures in Algeria" https://en.wal.unesco.org/countries/algeria/languages/chaoui... so I don't think any political skew is involved at all, their data is just a mess.

Hebrew is a much broader linguistic phenomenon than just modern Hebrew. Hebrew existed as a spoken language thousands of years ago and has existed continuously since then in many different forms in different Jewish communities primarily as a liturgical language.

Modern Hebrew (or probably “Israeli Hebrew” would be more accurate) was then constituted as a vernacular fairly recently as part of the Zionist project of creating a new national identity, distinct from the existing identities of the Jewish populations would emigrated to Israel.

They also separate Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Greek. Is that a political agenda too?