ILAN PAPPE: THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
“Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.” - John Pilger
The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as “The War of Independence”, but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the “catastrophe”.
Alongside the creation of the State of Israel, the end of the war led to one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. Around a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed. Though the truth about the mass expulsion has been systematically distorted and suppressed, had it taken place in the twenty-first century it could only have been called “ethnic cleansing”.
In his new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, prominent Israeli academic Ilan Pappe argues passionately that the denial of international recognition for this tragedy, and the refusal to allow the Palestinians the right to return to their homeland excludes from the peace process the essential foundation for a lasting peace in the Middle East and beyond.
“Ilan Pappe has written an extraordinary book that is of profound relevance to the past, present, and future of Israel/Palestine relations.” - Richard Falk, Prof. of International Law and Practice, Princeton University
“Fresh insights into a world historic tragedy, related by a historian of genius.” - George Galloway MP
“If there is to be real peace in Palestine/Israel, the moral vigour and intellectual clarity of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine will have been a major contributor to it.” - Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love.
“Groundbreaking research into a well-kept Israeli secret. A classic of historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New Historians.” – Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima
“An instant classic. Finally we have the authoritative account of an historic event, which continues to shape our world today, and drives the conflict in the Middle East. Pappe is the only historian who could have told it, and he has done so with supreme command of the facts, elegance, and compassion. The publication of this book is a landmark event.” – Karma Nabulsi, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University.
ILAN PAPPE is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer of Political Science at Haifa University. He is also Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva, and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Haifa. He is the author of a number of books, including A History of Modern Palestine, The Modern Middle East and The Israel/Palestine Question.
He will be speaking in a variety of locations throughout the U.K. in October.
Details of events in North America in November will be available shortly.
Tuesday 17th October 7.30pm
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign presents:
“Justice for Palestine - Peace in the Middle-East”
ILAN PAPPE University of Haifa, will be speaking about his new book,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, The Rt. Rev Riah Abu El-Assal will talk about the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people.
Dr Manuel Hassassian Palestinian General Delegate to the UK.
The Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London
Free entry/Donations welcome
Wednesday 18th October 5.30pm
The Oxford Union in association with Blackwells
Ilan Pappe talking on The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Frewin Court St Michael’s Street Oxford OX1 3JB
Open to all members of Oxford University
Thursday 19th October
10.30-12.30pm
CHATHAM HOUSE Round-table discussion
Paper by Ilan Pappe: Paradaigm Shifts: A New Look at the Palestine Question
Invitation Only
6.30pm
“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: from the Oslo accords to Olmert's convergence plan”
Chair: Prof. Benita Parry of the English department, a member of the Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
Warwick University Humanities building, room 0.51
Free Event/ ALL WELCOME
Books by Ilan Pappe http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-1265824-3610306?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ILAN+PAPPE+&Go.x=13&Go.y=5
“Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.” - John Pilger
The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as “The War of Independence”, but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the “catastrophe”.
Alongside the creation of the State of Israel, the end of the war led to one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. Around a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed. Though the truth about the mass expulsion has been systematically distorted and suppressed, had it taken place in the twenty-first century it could only have been called “ethnic cleansing”.
In his new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, prominent Israeli academic Ilan Pappe argues passionately that the denial of international recognition for this tragedy, and the refusal to allow the Palestinians the right to return to their homeland excludes from the peace process the essential foundation for a lasting peace in the Middle East and beyond.
“Ilan Pappe has written an extraordinary book that is of profound relevance to the past, present, and future of Israel/Palestine relations.” - Richard Falk, Prof. of International Law and Practice, Princeton University
“Fresh insights into a world historic tragedy, related by a historian of genius.” - George Galloway MP
“If there is to be real peace in Palestine/Israel, the moral vigour and intellectual clarity of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine will have been a major contributor to it.” - Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love.
“Groundbreaking research into a well-kept Israeli secret. A classic of historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New Historians.” – Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima
“An instant classic. Finally we have the authoritative account of an historic event, which continues to shape our world today, and drives the conflict in the Middle East. Pappe is the only historian who could have told it, and he has done so with supreme command of the facts, elegance, and compassion. The publication of this book is a landmark event.” – Karma Nabulsi, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University.
ILAN PAPPE is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer of Political Science at Haifa University. He is also Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva, and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Haifa. He is the author of a number of books, including A History of Modern Palestine, The Modern Middle East and The Israel/Palestine Question.
He will be speaking in a variety of locations throughout the U.K. in October.
Details of events in North America in November will be available shortly.
Tuesday 17th October 7.30pm
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign presents:
“Justice for Palestine - Peace in the Middle-East”
ILAN PAPPE University of Haifa, will be speaking about his new book,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, The Rt. Rev Riah Abu El-Assal will talk about the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people.
Dr Manuel Hassassian Palestinian General Delegate to the UK.
The Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London
Free entry/Donations welcome
Wednesday 18th October 5.30pm
The Oxford Union in association with Blackwells
Ilan Pappe talking on The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Frewin Court St Michael’s Street Oxford OX1 3JB
Open to all members of Oxford University
Thursday 19th October
10.30-12.30pm
CHATHAM HOUSE Round-table discussion
Paper by Ilan Pappe: Paradaigm Shifts: A New Look at the Palestine Question
Invitation Only
6.30pm
“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: from the Oslo accords to Olmert's convergence plan”
Chair: Prof. Benita Parry of the English department, a member of the Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
Warwick University Humanities building, room 0.51
Free Event/ ALL WELCOME
Books by Ilan Pappe http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-1265824-3610306?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ILAN+PAPPE+&Go.x=13&Go.y=5