[sndman]

> susceptible to dogmatically motivated biases.

Indeed. And it's not just biblical archaeology. The Israeli government influence and corruption extends to most academics.

When the Israeli academy is under control, a government can carefully construct its own history and when there is evidence of historical religious claims, well then, one can even reclaim ancient lands.

Also, a government can also confiscate land and open up a theme part based on this "research". Don't laugh. Ever hear of City of David?

This distrust of Israeli "historians" and it's treatment of Ilan Pappe even started the modern BDS movement

https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/05/11/tantura-teddy-katz-a...

[dogma1138]

I know that it’s likely throwaway account but every comment it made is about Israel…

[sndman]

When there is an article about Israeli researchers delving into the history of the land they have stolen, I pay attention because my family was ethnically cleansed from this land in 1948 because we were not Jewish. We were part of over 750,000 Natives exiled from their land, dispossessed and exiled. And not allowed to return.

Israeli citizens are not aware of their shameful past (ethnic cleansing, massacres, looting, and rapes) that took place in 1947-1949.