Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and activist, currently a professor at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. He is one of Israel’s “New Historians” who have challenged traditional narratives of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Pappé is known for his controversial views on the 1948 Palestinian exodus, which he describes as ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel. His book, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” (2006), argues that the expulsion of Palestinians was a deliberate policy of the Zionist movement.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ten Myths About Israel
In this book, Ilan methodically debunks a series of pervasive myths which have been used by by Zionists to to justify the establishment and expansion of Israel:
- Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration.
- The Jews were a people without a land.
- There is no difference between Zionism and Judaism.
- Zionism is not a colonial project of occupation.
- The Palestinians left their Homeland voluntarily in 1948.
- The June 1967 War was a war of ‘No Choice’.
- Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East.
- The Oslo Mythologies
- The Gaza Mythologies
- The Two-State Solution
Ilan Pappé’s new book is due to be released on September 10th 2024
Ilan Pappe unveils how a lobby changed the map of the Middle East. Zionists exerted pressure on the Congress, cracked down on dissent in the Labour Party and relentlessly smeared critics. Groups funded by the Israeli state pushed for unprecedented military aid, recognition of unlawfully occupied territories and the erasure of Palestinian rights. Lobbying for Zionism shows us how a dangerous consensus was built – and how it might be dismantled.