Israel’s control over archaeology increasingly overlaps with settler expansion, restricting Palestinian access and recasting centuries-old sites in the occupied West Bank as exclusively Israeli heritage.
Scientists say the Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history of the Holy Land shorn of all complexity, context, and Palestinians
The cultural and historical sites of Gaza form an integral part of world heritage. Their destruction amounts to crimes under international criminal law.
Ha’aretz reports: Jerusalem has existed for over 7,000 years. Jews have been unquestionably connected with the city for 3,000 or so – yet it functioned as their capital only for short periods in history.
When Israel created itself in 1948—and even before this date—the “Jewish State” worked to take control of archaeology, and thus, of the region’s history. It toiled to erase footprints of the numerous civilizations that had preceded the Jewish presence, as well as the peoples that have come afterward. Kathryn Shihadah gives us the past and present details….