usage the term is sometimes used within israel predominantly by fanatical jewish chauvinists for political motives to describe illegal jewish israeli settlements within the occupied palestinian territories shown by the term not being applied to tel aviv district israel insider ma'ale adumim larger than tel aviv i don't think so gush emunim apply the term to the west bank as a geopolitical manoeuvre devoted to an ideology greater land of israel ha'aretz the terms judea and samaria are also highly controversial in israeli society itself and are often employed specifically as a collective reference to the illegal israeli settlements in that area historically and presently especially by jewish settlers and their supporters jpost arutz sheva newsweek nov it stretches to the fanatical jewish chauvinists who want to expel the arabs from the land they call judea and samariaa territory that depending on how you read the bible could stretch past the jordan as far as the euphrates says sternhell the minimum the religious zionists can live with is the west bank newsweek nov the religious settlers in the occupied territories believe that god gave them the west bankwhich they call by the biblical names judea and samaria and that no temporal leader can give the promised land away left wing israelis prefer hagada hama'aravit the west bank in hebrew or hashetahim hakvushim the occupied territories many arab palestinians object to this term as a rejection of their claim to the land nevertheless the term al yahudiyya was samarah is used by arab christians in reference to the bible murqus sa' d tafs r kalim t al kit b al muqaddas cairo in arabic jewish daily as used by jvl in the college of judea samaria where the college is described as a demonstratively zionist institution the college has two key requirements every student must study one course per semester on some aspect of judaism jewish heritage or land of israel studies and the israeli flag must be displayed in every classroom laboratory and auditorium on campus jvl apcr again used by right wing extremists for west bank now lets' look at what the official name of the geopolitical area is us officially designates the west bank the occupied territories library of congress dore gold wants disputed territories b'tselem occupied territories britain's position occupied territories ireland occupied territories un occupied territories red cross the icrc in israel the occupied territories and the autonomous territories indexed under palestine interesting and yet wiki uses a term that is controversial in israel rs sources gershom gorenberg ot david kretzmer ot kitty warnock ot felicia langer ot idith zertal akiva eldar vivian eden vivian sohn eden ot stephen c pelletiere ot eyal benvenisti ot joost r hiltermann ot emma playfair ot erica lang ot esther rosalind cohen ot linda bevis ot john j mearsheimer stephen m walt ot paul hunt ot gh z khursh d ibrahim abid ot lynne rosengrant franks ot neil alger dt william b quandt dt colin shindler judea and samaria used in conjunction with the right wing ultra nationalist religious movement joseph telushkin js judea samaria and gaza views on the present and future by daniel judah elazar published by american enterprise