Because BDS, Israeli archeologists want West Bank work kept secret | +972 Magazine
Quiet - occupation in progress!
So what's the next phase? You'll mask all our faces? The face of every
soldier standing at a checkpoint? If we're so ashamed of the occupation
(justifiably!) - maybe we should just end it!
This is how the State of Israel replied to the court without a word of the moral price we're paying for the occupation:
"The State managed to convince Judge Marzel that the archeologists, who
testified in an ex parte hearing (without the presence of the
petitioners), that publishing their names would pose a real threat of
academic boycott due to their work in the occupied territories under a
license issued by the military regime.
The State claimed there is
also a risk that the archeologists would be unable to publish in
international academic journals, and that foreign academics would refuse
to work with them in future research or refuse to invite them to
conferences, thereby harming their professional careers."
The visitor’s center at the West Bank archeological site of Shiloh, in the Israeli settlement of Shilo. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
