Podcast: How Israel weaponizes archaeology

In the West Bank, archaeology has become a hot-button issue.

Hello everyone,

Episode six of The Proximities Podcast is now live.

This week, it’s a genuinely fascinating one.

I spoke to British-Palestinian commentator and political economist Kieran Andrieu about the occupied West Bank. But we came at it from an unusual angle that you don’t see covered much in the mainstream media – archaeology.

With the Israeli government moving ahead with a bill to bring archaeological sites in the West Bank under its control, we discussed how archaeology has been weaponised as a tool of occupation, how it is used to erase the Palestinian people and their history, and how even Israeli archeologists are trying to resist.

Our conversation is on Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here and YouTube here.

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And I hope you enjoy it.

Barry.