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Why is the history of modern Palestine such a matter of debate? Why is it still regarded as a complex, indeed obscure,…
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.
In 1977 Menachem Begin, then head of the Likud, created a revolution and removed the Labour Party from power. Begin’s was a…
Ilan Pappe is a professor of History at Haifa University in Israel. He is an activist for Palestinian rights. He was in…
Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion Edited by Ramzy Baroud Introduction by Noam Chomsky Over a year has passed now,…
In the middle of last month, Israel began building a fence to separate itself physically from the West Bank. Among my friends…
As a Jewish child, born in Haifa in the early 1950s, I did not encounter the term Nakbah (catastrophe), nor was I…
Dear Friends, I have received today an invitation to stand for a trial in my university, the university of Haifa. The prosecution,…