Attempting to discredit the biblical narrative or the Hebrew National Historical Narrative is a big part of the JINO campaign to deligitimitize Zionism within Israel.
The bigger question is ‘Are these people mad or evil or both?’
I would really like for some Jewish Freepers to enlighten us on this one.
Zionism formally started out as an assimilationist movement. Theodore Hertzel, when he discovered that gentiles will continue to dislike Jews no matter how assimilated they were, gave up on his idea of mass conversions to Catholicism, and determined that the only way to truly assimilate would be to have a Jewish homeland, but one in which Jews act emphatically un-Jewish, and embrace the haut culture of Europe that he so admired. But true Zionism pre-dates Hertzel, and Jewish crisis in Europe involved the very Jews that Theodore Hertzel and his ilk felt embarrassed to be around, all those kaftan-wearing, herring-eating Jooos! from whom the Hertzel-ian Zionists wished to distance themselves. But not all Jews within the Zionist movement felt that way, and those that did were strongly left wing. Ze’ev Jabotinsky founded the more right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement. They, too, were assimilationists, but wanted to save the Jews stuck in Europe facing annihilation, and then compel them to shave their beards and sidelocks. There were also religious Zionists led by Rav Kook, who simply wanted to return to Zion and live as Jews, no assimilation, thank you very much. They, too, wanted to save European Jews. The British, who only wanted to save their hegemony in the Middle East, favored the Hertzel/Ben Gurion/Kollick brand of Zionism, and did their very best to keep those annoying Jooos! away from the Jewish Homeland, encouraging Arab riots and using them as justification for strict quotas on Jooos! The Revisionists, however, became determined to bring as many Jews as possible to Israel, and fought the British embarrassingly well as they smuggled in refugees and blew up major police and military targets. The Ben Gurion faction informed against them to curry favor with the British, and the British hounded them without mercy. These were the real nationalists. Modern day leftists in Israel are the ideological descendants of the leftists of that time. Assimilation is of utmost importance to them, the latest intellectual fashions, etc. So if Jewish nationalism is out of fashion, they are opposed to it. It then becomes an obstacle to their true desire, to assimilate and cease being Jews. Thus they want Ir David excavations to stop. The modern Israeli right is descended from the Revisionist and Religious branches, both of which are emphatically nationalistic. Thus, they want Ir David excavations to continue.