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Ilan Pappé
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Pappé in 2023
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| Born | 7 November 1954 Haifa, Israel
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| Thesis | British Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East, 1948–1951: Britain and the Arab–Israeli Conflict (1984) |
Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן פפה; born 7 November 1954) is an Israeli historian and political scientist. He is a professor at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. There, he directs the European Centre for Palestine Studies. He also helps lead the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.
Pappé is known as one of Israel's New Historians. These historians use new documents to look at past events. Since the 1980s, Pappé has written a lot about the events of 1948 in Palestine. He argues that many Palestinians were forced to leave their homes. He believes this was a planned action.
Before moving to the UK, he taught at the University of Haifa. He also led the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies. He left Israel in 2008. This was after he faced criticism and threats because of his views.
Pappé has written several books. These include Ten Myths About Israel (2017) and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). He supports a "one-state solution" for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This means he believes Palestinians and Israelis should live together in one country. He also supports an international boycott of Israeli academics. This is a way to protest certain policies.
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Early Life and School
Ilan Pappé was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1954. His parents were German Jews who left Germany in the 1930s. They were escaping the Nazis.
When he was 18, he joined the Israel Defense Forces. He served in the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He later studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1978. In 1984, he earned his PhD in history from the University of Oxford. His first book, Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, came from his PhD studies.
His Work as a Historian
Pappé taught at the University of Haifa from 1984 to 2006. He was a senior lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Political Science. He also directed the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva. This was from 1993 to 2000. He also chaired the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies.
Pappé moved to Exeter in the UK in 2007. This happened after he supported a boycott of Israeli universities. The president of the University of Haifa asked him to resign. Pappé said it was hard to live in Israel with his views. He felt his ideas were not welcome. He joined Exeter as a Professor of History. Since 2009, he has directed its European Centre for Palestine Studies.
His Views on the Conflict
In 1999, Pappé ran in the Knesset elections. He was on the Hadash party list.
Pappé supports economic and political boycotts of Israel. He also supports an academic boycott. He believes these actions are important. He compares them to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. He thinks they can help bring peace.
He also started the annual Israeli Right of Return Conferences. These conferences call for Palestinian refugees from 1948 to be allowed to return home. Pappé believes that while national groups deserve their own state, this idea does not apply to Jews. He sees Jews as a religious group, not a nation.
In 2023, Pappé described Israel's actions against Palestinians as "incremental genocide." During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, he restated his opposition to Zionism. He wrote that the violence is not new. He called for a "de-zionised, liberated and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea." He also asked the Israeli government to exchange prisoners to free hostages held by Hamas. In 2024, he argued that terms like "Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas" are misleading. He prefers "Palestinian resistance" and "decolonization of Palestine." He believes the original Zionist plan was "illogical, immoral and impractical."
Different Views on His Work
Historians often have different ways of looking at the past. Some scholars have praised Pappé's work. For example, Seif Da'Na called his 2006 book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, a "highly documented narrative." Rashmi Singh praised his 2014 book, The Idea of Israel, as a "courageous and unflinching study." Uri Ram also called The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine a "most important and daring book."
However, other scholars have criticized his work. These include Benny Morris and Efraim Karsh. Morris has said some of Pappé's writing contains "complete fabrication." He called Pappé "one of the world's sloppiest historians." Pappé has responded to this criticism. He believes all historians are "subjective human beings." He says they try to tell their own version of the past.
Published Work
Books
- Ten Myths About Israel. New York: Verso. 2017. ISBN: 9781786630193
- (with Noam Chomsky) Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Hamish Hamilton, 2010). ISBN: 978-0-241-14506-7
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (London and New York: Oneworld, 2006). ISBN: 1-85168-467-0
- The Modern Middle East (London and New York: Routledge, 2005). ISBN: 0-415-21409-2
- A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2004), ISBN: 0-521-55632-5
- (With Jamil Hilal). Parlare Con il Nemico, Narrazioni palestinesi e israeliane a confronto (Milano: Bollati Boringhieri, 2004).
- The Aristocracy: The Husaynis; A Political Biography (Jerusalem: Mossad Byalik, (Hebrew), 2003).
- The Israel-Palestine Question (London and New York: Routledge, 1999; 2006). ISBN: 0-415-16948-8
- (with M. Maoz). History From Within: Politics and Ideas in Middle East (London and New York: Tauris, 1997). ISBN: 1-86064-012-5
- (with J. Nevo). Jordan in the Middle East: The Making of a Pivotal State (London: Frank Cass, 1994). ISBN: 0-7146-3454-9
- The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951 (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1992; 1994). ISBN: 1-85043-819-6
- Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–1951 (London: St. Antony's College Series, Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). ISBN: 0-312-01573-9
Articles
- "What drives Israel?", Essay of the week, Herald Scotland (6 June 2010).
- "Towards a Geography of Peace: Whither Gaza?", The Electronic Intifada (18 June 2007).
- "Calling a Spade a Spade: The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" , article in al-Majdal Magazine (Spring 2006).
- "Back the boycott," The Guardian, (24 May 2005).
- "Haj Amin and the Buraq Revolt", Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 18 (June 2003).
- "The '48 Nakba & The Zionist Quest for its Completion" , Between The Lines (October 2002).
- "The Husayni Family Faces New Challenges: Tanzimat, Young Turks, the Europeans and Zionism 1840–1922, Part II", Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 11–12 (Winter-Spring 2001).
- Ilan Pappé, "The Tantura Case in Israel: The Katz Research and Trial," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 19–39.
- Ilan Pappé, "The Rise and Fall of the Husainis (Part 1)," Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 10 (Autumn 2000).
- Ilan Pappé, "Review Essay, Israeli Television's Fiftieth Anniversary "Tekumma" Series: A Post-Zionist View?," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Summer 1998), pp. 99–105, Institute for Palestinian Studies.
- Ilan Pappé, Destruction of al-Aqsa is no conspiracy theory, The Electronic Intifada, 10 November 2015.
Images for kids
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Pappé giving a lecture in 2008.
See also
In Spanish: Ilan Pappé para niños
