The paper contributes to a critique of Israeli Critical Planning Studies (CPS). Critical scholars conceptualize Israeli planning as colonial, aspiring to dispossess Bedouin indigenous people without implementing participation or considering cultural needs. By studying current plans and interviewing planners and senior officials, the paper shows that planning has progressed dramatically during recent decades. The article continues with positioning the critique within the political context it originated from. It concludes with a Lefebvrian–Gramscian analysis of the place of critical scholars within the political production of space and the way this affects CPS.

该论文有助于对以色列关键计划研究（CPS）的批评。批判学者将以色列的计划概念化为殖民地，希望在不进行参与或不考虑文化需求的情况下处置贝都因人。通过研究当前的计划并采访计划者和高级官员，该论文表明，在最近几十年中，计划取得了巨大进展。本文继续将批评置于其起源的政治背景之内。最后，对有关批判学者在空间政治生产中的地位及其影响CPS的方式进行了Lefebvrian-Gramscian分析。