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“I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy”
Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor of history at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is also the author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (Yale), The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso) and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Penguin). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
Interview on the recent violence, Operation Protective Edge and the prospects of peace in the future
The Zionist strategy of branding its brutal policies as an ad hoc response to this or that Palestinian action is as old as the Zionist presence in Palestine itself
The Israel-Palestine conflict is not only a severe human rights issue and the longest ongoing military occupation in the post-WWII era, but a major source for region-wide tension
If I had to choose a formative event that really changed my point of view in dramatic fashion, it would be Israel’s attack on Lebanon in 1982
In a regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state’s “Independence Day,” Shimon Peres, the current president…
Celebrated Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe who wrote "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" that documented the 1948 removal of 700,000 Palestinians from their…
Spending a week in Israel these days is like being trapped within a scene from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
For decades, Israel has waged war against Palestinians with the blessing of the world's chief powers in Western Europe and North America.…
We are all going to be invited to the funeral of the two-state solution if and when the UN General Assembly announces the acceptance of…