https://znetwork.org/author/ilanpappe/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:25:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/ilanpappe/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-ilan-pappe-and-mariam-barghouti/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-ilan-pappe-and-mariam-barghouti/#respond Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:25:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292563 Israeli historian Ilan Pappé (1954), author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and other prominent works, has played a crucial role in challenging the dominant Western narrative that presents Israel as a liberal democracy born in innocence. His work exposed the foundational violence and displacement at the heart of the Israeli state project. Palestinian journalist [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-ilan-pappe-and-mariam-barghouti/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290653 In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity at its most vulnerable point in its short history? And more importantly — will its actions lead to the complete collapse of the Zionist project? Legendary Israeli historian Ilan Pappé provides some answers. Transcript Chris Hedges The Israeli historian Ilan Pappé [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-rot-is-very-very-deep/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-rot-is-very-very-deep/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286820 The brothers welcome back historian Ilan Pappé to the show to discuss whether he still believes that the Gaza genocide marks “the beginning of the end of the Zionist project”, his understanding of the nature of Israel’s decline, the attacks on institutions of higher learning, and how Palestine has become the keystone for liberatory projects.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-rot-is-very-very-deep/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-second-class-citizenship-of-palestinian-israelis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-second-class-citizenship-of-palestinian-israelis/#respond Sat, 31 May 2025 14:17:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284421 Palestinians in Israel have a complex relationship with the state in which they live. They have been citizens of the country for more than sixty years, but not full-fledged citizens, as Israeli historian Ilan Pappé indicates in his book The Forgotten Palestinians. They navigate a precarious position between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied territories. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-second-class-citizenship-of-palestinian-israelis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-israel-became-a-fascist-state/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-israel-became-a-fascist-state/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1282922 Historian Illan Pappé discusses the current situation in Israel with Aaron Bastani.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-israel-became-a-fascist-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/#respond Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:51:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282872 The Palestinians do not have the luxury for Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small but important step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed. The responses in the Western world to the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-unraveling-zionism-october-7-and-the-ongoing-nakba-w-ilan-pappe/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-unraveling-zionism-october-7-and-the-ongoing-nakba-w-ilan-pappe/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1281300 Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project—and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat. From Gaza’s destruction to the West’s complicity, Pappé unpacks the Nakba al-mustamirra (ongoing Nakba), Israeli genocide, and the urgent need for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-unraveling-zionism-october-7-and-the-ongoing-nakba-w-ilan-pappe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-israel-have-a-future-with-ilan-pappe/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-israel-have-a-future-with-ilan-pappe/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1280335 The Israeli Jewish public consistently supported the genocide in Gaza by large margins, according to opinion polls. But in recent months things started to shift. An overwhelming majority now say they support the ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal that went into effect in January. Earlier this month, the Israel Democracy Institute published a poll which [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-israel-have-a-future-with-ilan-pappe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273489 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genocide-in-palestine-how-to-prevent-the-next-stage-from-happening/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genocide-in-palestine-how-to-prevent-the-next-stage-from-happening/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:03:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272105 As many of us had warned, eleven months into the genocide of Gaza, Israel is now focusing on the genocide of the West Bank.  In this case, it is a more cautious policy, since Israel cannot find easy pretexts as it did to justify its assault and genocide in Gaza. However, the narrative that Israel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genocide-in-palestine-how-to-prevent-the-next-stage-from-happening/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-zionism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-zionism/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:07:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268184 Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its very foundations. More than 120 years since its inception, could the Zionist project in Palestine – the idea of imposing a Jewish state on an [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-zionism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappei-hope-for-the-end-of-israel-and-the-creation-of-free-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappei-hope-for-the-end-of-israel-and-the-creation-of-free-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1268105 Israeli historian Ilan Pappe launched his new book, “Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” on 11 June at an event organised by The Cordoba Foundation, MEMO and One World Publications in London, UK. At the event, Pappe spoke about historical and present antisemites who have supported Zionism.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappei-hope-for-the-end-of-israel-and-the-creation-of-free-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-the-zionist-project/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-the-zionist-project/#respond Sun, 26 May 2024 14:13:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1266946 We speak with renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé about his recent trip to the United States, when he was interrogated for two hours by federal agents upon arrival at Detroit airport about his political views on Gaza, Hamas and Israel, as well as demanding to know whom he knew in U.S. Muslim, Arab and Palestinian [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-the-zionist-project/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-gaza-now-its-worse-than-ethnic-cleansing/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-gaza-now-its-worse-than-ethnic-cleansing/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1262905 Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and professor at the University of Exeter. Pappé is known for his outspoken views on the Israeli-Palestinian question – drawing both praise and criticism. He’s the author of several books including “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”, in which he challenges the traditional Israeli narrative over the establishment of Israel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-gaza-now-its-worse-than-ethnic-cleansing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-dark-before-the-dawn-but-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-dark-before-the-dawn-but-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/#respond Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262508 The idea that Zionism is settler colonialism is not new. Palestinian scholars in the 1960s working in Beirut in the PLO Research Centre had already understood that what they were facing in Palestine was not a classical colonial project. They did not frame Israel as just a British colony or an American one, but regarded [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-dark-before-the-dawn-but-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262209 Professor Ilan Pappe spoke at IHRC’s annual Genocide Memorial Day in London, UK on 21st January 2024, on the need to understand that the genocide of Palestinians we are currently witnessing, as brutal as it is, is also the demise of the so-called Jewish state.  We need to be ready to imagine a new world beyond [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappe-pa-is-not-relevant-israeli-attack-on-rafah-is-imminent/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappe-pa-is-not-relevant-israeli-attack-on-rafah-is-imminent/#respond Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:50:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1262028 Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian and author of ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,’ expressed his view that it would be challenging for Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to maintain relevance in the eyes of the Israeli government. According to Pappe, Abbas’ perceived role primarily revolves around security coordination in the West Bank to prevent [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappe-pa-is-not-relevant-israeli-attack-on-rafah-is-imminent/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-myth-of-israels-democracy-with-ilan-pappe/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-myth-of-israels-democracy-with-ilan-pappe/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:55:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260322 Israel’s status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-myth-of-israels-democracy-with-ilan-pappe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zaudio/75-years-of-ethnic-cleansing/ https://znetwork.org/zaudio/75-years-of-ethnic-cleansing/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=audio&p=1259335 The internationally renowned historian and political scientist Prof. Dr. Ilan Pappé (author of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”) spoke on “75 Years of Ethnic Cleansing: from the Nakba to the Genocide in Gaza” at the Palestine Seminar Days of the Revolutionary Left in Marburg.]]> https://znetwork.org/zaudio/75-years-of-ethnic-cleansing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-gaza-war-hostages-the-context-behind-current-violence/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-gaza-war-hostages-the-context-behind-current-violence/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1256774 We speak with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé about Israel’s escalating war on Gaza, as well as a leaked document from the country’s Ministry of Intelligence that suggests permanently expelling Gaza’s entire population to the Sinai Desert in Egypt. “This is a massive operation of killing, of ethnic cleansing, of depopulation,” says Pappé. He also says [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-gaza-war-hostages-the-context-behind-current-violence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/crisis-in-zionism-opportunity-for-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/crisis-in-zionism-opportunity-for-palestine/#respond Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:21:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1256124 A lecture by Professor Ilan Pappé, Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK October 19th, 2023]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/crisis-in-zionism-opportunity-for-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/there-is-still-time-to-stop-the-gaza-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/there-is-still-time-to-stop-the-gaza-genocide/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1255964 Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, author of many books, including “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine” about the current situation in Gaza and in Israel. From the surprise he felt when he first heard of the Hamas attack, and its scale, to the current Israeli army operation, via the need for the people of the world to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/there-is-still-time-to-stop-the-gaza-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judea-vs-fantasy-israel-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-israeli-pillars-and-the-opportunities-for-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judea-vs-fantasy-israel-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-israeli-pillars-and-the-opportunities-for-palestine/#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:29:10 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1250424 Israel’s legitimacy, in fact, its very viability, rests on two main pillars. First, the material pillar, which includes its military strength, high-tech capabilities, and a solid economic system. The above factors enable the state to build a strong network of alliances with countries that would like to benefit from what Israel has to offer: arms, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judea-vs-fantasy-israel-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-israeli-pillars-and-the-opportunities-for-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-was-destroyed-in-12-months-but-the-nakba-has-gone-on-for-75-years/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-was-destroyed-in-12-months-but-the-nakba-has-gone-on-for-75-years/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246227 At the beginning of February 1947, the British cabinet decided to end the mandate over Palestine and leave the country after nearly 30 years of rule. The economic crisis in Britain following the Second World War brought a Labour government to power, which was willing to shrink the empire and cater for the needs of the people of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-was-destroyed-in-12-months-but-the-nakba-has-gone-on-for-75-years/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/fantasies-of-israel/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/fantasies-of-israel/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:14:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1243949 Watching the news in Israel this month, you’d think the country was under attack from all sides. Three Anglo-Israeli settlers were killed by guerrillas in the West Bank; an Italian tourist was killed and seven others injured in Tel Aviv, in what may have been a car accident but was widely presented as a terrorist [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/fantasies-of-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ilan-pappe-on-the-socio-political-formations-behind-israels-neo-zionist-government/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ilan-pappe-on-the-socio-political-formations-behind-israels-neo-zionist-government/#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:14:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1236759 Two months after the election of the new government of Israel, the blurred picture is becoming more transparent, and it seems one can offer some more informed insights about its composition, personalities, and possible future policies and reaction to them. It would not be an exaggeration to define Benjamin Netanyahu as the least extreme member [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ilan-pappe-on-the-socio-political-formations-behind-israels-neo-zionist-government/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/germanys-position-on-palestine-twice-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/germanys-position-on-palestine-twice-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/#respond Tue, 17 May 2022 10:20:37 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1058290 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/germanys-position-on-palestine-twice-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-can-no-longer-bury-the-tantura-massacre/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-can-no-longer-bury-the-tantura-massacre/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:00:41 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1054539 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-can-no-longer-bury-the-tantura-massacre/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-state-is-a-game-changer/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-state-is-a-game-changer/#respond Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:00:13 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1042115 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-state-is-a-game-changer/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/finding-the-truth-amid-israels-lies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/finding-the-truth-amid-israels-lies/#respond Thu, 31 May 2018 09:01:26 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1010538 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/finding-the-truth-amid-israels-lies/feed/ 0