Emek Shaveh

2/ The Knesset's Education, Culture and Sports Committee is set to vote on the bill tomorrow, ahead of the final vote in the plenum. Don't be fooled by the focus on archaeology. This is a bid to legislate annexation of territory without having to face the consequences.

1/ This is the latest version of the antiquities bill advanced in the Knesset. After two years of working on legislation to apply Israeli law to antiquity sites in the West Bank (so, um, annexation), in the latest version they've added Gaza. What next? Lebanon? Syria? >>

7/ cultural landscape of the West Bank. For more information on the dangerous heritage bill see here: emekshaveh.org/en/new-heritag…

6/ The bill is a climax of multiple actions taken by the coalition in the name of archaeology: government decisions, budgetary allocations, site declarations and land expropriations with the single purpose of dispossessing Palestinians and reshaping the demographic and >>

1/ “The idea that international conventions and things of that sort apply to the Jewish people in places like Sebastia is unacceptable”, Amit Halevi said this week at the Knesset's Education Committee discussion on the new West Bank “Heritage Authority” bill >>

"It must be understood that the absence of accountability and consequences for a deliberate obstruction of a Palestinian State has fostered a state of impunity that brought us to this dark moment." Kudos to Amy Cohen and @IrAmim for articulating this so forcefully at the UNSC.

Hi @piersmorgan It’s important to note that Doron spent years working for one of the most extreme, messianic, and vicious settler organizations. Actively promoted the displacement of families from their homes in pursuit of territorial and historical appropriation in E.Jerusalem!

4/ Israeli archaeology today in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is part and parcel of the wider reality of ethnic cleansing. For the full program see here: youtu.be/IEJmpgl9IJ4?si…

3/ as a pretext to take over land and create narrative anchors promoting exclusive Jewish belonging. All of this is being done in violation of int'l law which stipulates that any archaeological activity in occupied territory must serve the interests of the occupied people >>

1/ Glad to have the opportunity to speak with @CBSSunday on the unholy marriage between archaeology and land grab in the OPT. From City of David to Sebastia to Nabi Samuel, sites are turned into settler-run tourist hubs while Palestinians are pushed out. >>

11/ ..go far beyond the definition of “rescue excavations.” And in doing so, they risk turning Israeli archaeology, and the archaeologists themselves, into targets for international legal proceedings.

10/ More than anything, the Butyagin case is a clear warning sign for Israeli archaeologists operating in the West Bank. Large-scale tourism-driven excavations funded by hundreds of millions of shekels and promoted by far-right Minister Amichai Eliyahu..>>

1/ The dramatic ruling by a Polish court to extradite the Alexander Butyagin, a senior archaeologist from the Hermitage Museum in Russia, to the Ukraine should give pause to any Israeli archaeologist operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. >>