In reply to salix:
Yes, that's what I understood. I read an article about climbers in Israel and it seems they have had huge problems trying to access cliffs and the national park authorities don't get climbing or why anyone would want to do it so just have banned it in loads of places. I guess that is what Adam's name meant BUT the instagram post of it written on their backs on his visit to the Dead Sea seemed totally tone deaf. I guess you can get to the Dead Sea shoreline from Israel, but when I went and I understand how most tourists go is through the West Bank from Jerusalem, on roads not open to most Palestinians, to the NW corner of the sea where there are Kibbutz and tourist infrastructure and is still under close control by the Israeli military.
Someone on Instagram also noted he visited crags that are in the West Bank but accessed by Israelis through a Jewish Settlement, and I think might be banned for Palestinian climbers.
Adam is pretty young still, I think he did engineering at uni, and while he seems a very smart guy I guess he perhaps has just never really considered what is happening in that region. I'm sure he got invited, probably via his sponsors, by keen Israeli climbers and maybe didn't think much more about than that. But there has been some 'fuss' or at least debate when other pro-climbers have been to Israel in the past and particularly visiting the crags in the West Bank, without seeming to understand that this was occupied land.
There was a sad but very nice comment on his instagram from a Palestinian climber saying it was really sad for them that he had come so close but hadn't come and climbed with them and seen their crags, but basically inviting him to come back and do that in the future. Who know, maybe Ondra will take that opportunity - it would be a nice thing to see.