Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappe ( in Hebrew: אילן פפה, Ilan Pappe or occasionally Ilan Papeh, born 1954 in Haifa) is an Israeli historian, author and professor at the University of Exeter.

He is a prominent advocate of the one-state solution.

Life

Pappe's parents were from Germany and fled in the 1930s before the Nazi terror from the German Reich. He served in the Israeli army during the 1973 Yom Kippur War on the Golan Heights. In 1978 he completed his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His PhD thesis was finished in 1984 at the University of Oxford under Albert Hourani and Roger Owen. From 1984 he was a professor of political science at the University of Haifa. Politically, cardboard engaged in the communist dominated Hadash Party, for which he stood as a candidate in elections to the 15th Knesset in 1999. Him a resignation was suggested in 2005 by the University because he actively campaigned for an international boycott against Israel. He therefore joined the University of Exeter in England, where he has taught since 2007. Board is included in the group of the new Israeli historians.

Book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

In his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (English 2006, German 2007) provides board, based on only recently become accessible to Army documents, the thesis that the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine was the " systematic expulsion" of the local people involved with and that the Zionist leaders, led by David Ben Gurion, this goal in 1947 with political and military means further pursued after the partition resolution of the UN.

The journalist John Pilger called Ilan Pappe as the most courageous, incorruptible and most sharply judgmental historian of Israel. Critics - including the Israeli historian Benny Morris colleague - accuse Pappes work one-sidedness and methodological flaws, because it partially nursing a black-and- white narrative style and the references are incomplete, otherwise than in his earlier works.

Publications

• Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1951, 1988
• The Making of the Arab - Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951, 1992
• Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within, 1998
• The Israel / Palestine Question. Rewriting Histories, 1999
• The Israeli stance in the peace process, in: From Politics and History, 49 /2000 ( also online)
• A History of Modern Palestine. One Land, Two Peoples, 2003
• The Modern Middle East, 2005
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85168-467-0 dt: The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 3rd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-86150-791-8