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Removing Borders, Erasing Palestinians: Israeli Population Maps After 1967
- MikeUt 5y ago> To give just one example, despite paying Israeli taxes for decades, Diana Kurd, a Palestinian widow from Anata, was stripped of her pension because her deceased husband had slept on the wrong side of their bed. I found this so unbelievable that I had to confirm. It's not clear how big a role the sleeping position played in the courts decision, but other than that the story seems true: https://www.haaretz.com/1.5183494 https://www.haaretz.com/1.5183494
- robert_foss 5y agoIsrael truly is an apartheid state. And will continue to be one as long as it has the US blessing.
- Alkhwarizmi 5y agoPreach! We, as tax payers, like it or not all of us have blood on our hands and it makes me absolutely sick to my stomach but I genuinely don’t know any other way.
- anarbadalov 5y agoThis article keeps getting flagged, so I figured I should leave a comment as the OP (full disclosure: I work for MIT Press, who published the book from which the article is excerpted): I should have recognized that this may be too contentious a topic for this forum (or any open online forum), but I urge you give it a read. I learned a lot from it. It offers important historical context and is a good reminder that science is always political. The piece is a deep dive that draws on years of academic research; it's not an opinion essay, but a rigorous study of Israeli population cartography, under the direction of renowned statistician and geographer Roberto Bachi.