This 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.