The Biggest Israel-Palestine Story You Haven’t Heard About
The Knesset prepares to vote on a landmark bill that would effectively annex large parts of the West Bank—and potentially Gaza—through antiquities legislation.
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There’s a vote with massive implications for both the West Bank and Gaza coming up in Israel that has received virtually no mainstream coverage in the U.S. In part, that’s because the bill in question is framed as narrow legislation about archaeology. More broadly, it reflects a sustained failure of the press to tell the story of Israel’s annexation drive over the past three years. But this is what annexation actually looks like in practice—and understanding it is essential to understanding the central Israeli project of land theft and ethnic cleansing.
So before I get into the vote—and a surprise appearance by none other than Bari Weiss—I want to offer a brief refresher on how we got here.