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Ilan Pappé

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Born: November 06 1954

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Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist. He was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa .

Pappé is one of Israel's "New Historians" who, since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have been rewriting the history of Israel's creation in 1948, and the corresponding expulsion or flight of 700,000 Palestinians in the same year. He has written that the expulsions were not decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have argued, but constituted the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in accordance with Plan Dalet, drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. He blames the creation of Israel for the lack of peace in the Middle East, arguing that Zionism is more dangerous than Islamic militancy, and has called for an international boycott of Israeli academics.

His work has been both supported and criticized by other historians. Before he left Israel in 2008, he had been condemned in the Knesset, Israel's parliament; a minister of education had called for him to be sacked; his photograph had appeared in a newspaper at the centre of a target; and he had received several death threats.

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Ilan Pappé

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Books from Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

On Palestine

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Gaza: Stay Human

The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel

Ten Myths About Israel

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

The Modern Middle East

Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel

The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951

The Israel/Palestine Question: A Reader

Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto Middle Eastern Studies)

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Thinking Palestine

Voices for Peace: War, Resistance and America’s Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance

Voices for Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance

Not in our name!: Ebrei e israeliani contro l'occupazione

Our Vision For Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out