David Be’eri’s Useful IdiotsBackground here and here. Cross-file under Politics.
Every archaeological discovery made in the City of David in the past twenty years can be measured in the dispossession and humiliation it has caused to the Palestinians of Silwan, in its contribution to the settlers’ aim of claiming the Temple Mount, and in its acquiescence in the contempt for scientific archaeology shown by David Be’eri and El’ad.
See Also: Jerusalem’s “What Me Worry” Archaeology
A Future for the Archaeology of Jerusalem
By Raphael Greenberg
Dept. of Archaeology and ANE
Tel Aviv University
March 2017
The attribution in the original title to this post was incorrect. Apologies for the error.