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3232On the Warpath
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-warpath/#respondThu, 12 Mar 2026 16:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295711Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region dread the US-Israeli military operation and its consequences, Israeli society is jubilant. According to the latest polls, 93 per cent of [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-warpath/feed/0In Conversation With Ilan Pappé And Mariam Barghouti
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-ilan-pappe-and-mariam-barghouti/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-ilan-pappe-and-mariam-barghouti/#respondSat, 20 Dec 2025 16:25:46 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292563Israeli 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/0Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’
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https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/#respondThu, 30 Oct 2025 15:56:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290653In 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/0The Rot Is Very, Very Deep
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-rot-is-very-very-deep/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-rot-is-very-very-deep/#respondThu, 31 Jul 2025 15:49:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286820The 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/0The Second-Class Citizenship of Palestinian Israelis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-second-class-citizenship-of-palestinian-israelis/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-second-class-citizenship-of-palestinian-israelis/#respondSat, 31 May 2025 14:17:07 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284421Palestinians 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/0How Israel Became A Fascist State
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-israel-became-a-fascist-state/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-israel-became-a-fascist-state/#respondFri, 25 Apr 2025 15:54:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1282922Historian Illan Pappé discusses the current situation in Israel with Aaron Bastani.]]>https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-israel-became-a-fascist-state/feed/0On ‘Moral Panic’ and the Courage to Speak: The West’s Silence on Gaza
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/#respondWed, 23 Apr 2025 17:51:27 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282872The 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/0The 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/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-unraveling-zionism-october-7-and-the-ongoing-nakba-w-ilan-pappe/#respondThu, 20 Mar 2025 15:57:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1281300Is 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/0Does Israel Have A Future? With Ilan Pappé
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-israel-have-a-future-with-ilan-pappe/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/does-israel-have-a-future-with-ilan-pappe/#respondThu, 27 Feb 2025 16:53:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1280335The 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/0Israel After October 7: Between Decolonisation And Disintegration
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration/#respondThu, 10 Oct 2024 15:50:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273489https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration/feed/0The 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genocide-in-palestine-how-to-prevent-the-next-stage-from-happening/#respondMon, 09 Sep 2024 16:03:34 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272105As 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/0The Collapse of Zionism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-zionism/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-zionism/#respondFri, 21 Jun 2024 16:07:53 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268184Hamas’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/0Ilan Pappe: I 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/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappei-hope-for-the-end-of-israel-and-the-creation-of-free-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea/#respondThu, 20 Jun 2024 15:59:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1268105Israeli 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/0Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé on the “Collapse of the Zionist Project”
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/#respondSun, 26 May 2024 14:13:17 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1266946We 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/0In Gaza Now, It’s Worse Than Ethnic Cleansing
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-gaza-now-its-worse-than-ethnic-cleansing/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-gaza-now-its-worse-than-ethnic-cleansing/#respondThu, 29 Feb 2024 16:58:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1262905Ilan 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/0It 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-dark-before-the-dawn-but-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/#respondTue, 20 Feb 2024 17:15:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262508The 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/0Israeli Settler Colonialism Is At An End
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/#respondThu, 15 Feb 2024 16:56:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262209Professor 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/0Ilan Pappé: 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/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ilan-pappe-pa-is-not-relevant-israeli-attack-on-rafah-is-imminent/#respondSun, 11 Feb 2024 15:50:56 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1262028Ilan 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/0The Myth of Israel’s ‘Democracy’ With Ilan Pappé
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-myth-of-israels-democracy-with-ilan-pappe/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-myth-of-israels-democracy-with-ilan-pappe/#respondSat, 06 Jan 2024 15:55:13 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260322Israel’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/075 Years of Ethnic Cleansing
https://znetwork.org/zaudio/75-years-of-ethnic-cleansing/
https://znetwork.org/zaudio/75-years-of-ethnic-cleansing/#respondThu, 14 Dec 2023 16:56:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=audio&p=1259335The 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/0Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé 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/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-on-gaza-war-hostages-the-context-behind-current-violence/#respondWed, 01 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1256774We 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/0Crisis in Zionism, Opportunity for Palestine?
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/crisis-in-zionism-opportunity-for-palestine/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/crisis-in-zionism-opportunity-for-palestine/#respondSat, 21 Oct 2023 15:21:48 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1256124A 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/0There Is Still Time To Stop The Gaza Genocide
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/#respondThu, 19 Oct 2023 15:57:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1255964Israeli 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/0Judea vs ’Fantasy Israel: Ilan Pappé 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judea-vs-fantasy-israel-ilan-pappe-on-the-collapse-of-israeli-pillars-and-the-opportunities-for-palestine/#respondFri, 04 Aug 2023 21:29:10 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1250424Israel’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/0Palestine 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-was-destroyed-in-12-months-but-the-nakba-has-gone-on-for-75-years/#respondThu, 18 May 2023 15:58:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246227At 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/0Fantasies of Israel
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/fantasies-of-israel/
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/fantasies-of-israel/#respondThu, 20 Apr 2023 16:14:56 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1243949Watching 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/0Ilan Pappe on the Socio-Political Formations behind Israel’s Neo-Zionist Government
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/#respondThu, 12 Jan 2023 13:14:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1236759Two 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/0Germany’s 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/germanys-position-on-palestine-twice-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/#respondTue, 17 May 2022 10:20:37 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1058290https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/germanys-position-on-palestine-twice-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/feed/0Israel can no longer bury the Tantura massacre
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-can-no-longer-bury-the-tantura-massacre/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-can-no-longer-bury-the-tantura-massacre/#respondFri, 04 Feb 2022 11:00:41 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1054539https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-can-no-longer-bury-the-tantura-massacre/feed/0‘One State is a Game Changer’
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-state-is-a-game-changer/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-state-is-a-game-changer/#respondThu, 14 Jan 2021 09:00:13 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1042115https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-state-is-a-game-changer/feed/0
Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region dread the US-Israeli military operation and its consequences, Israeli society is jubilant. According to the latest polls, 93 per cent of [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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.]]>
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. [...]]]>
Historian Illan Pappé discusses the current situation in Israel with Aaron Bastani.]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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.]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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.]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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, [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>