The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ilan Pappé (born on November 7, 1954) is an Israeli historian best known for his provocative work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Born in Haifa, Israel, Pappé earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford and has subsequently lectured at the University of Haifa and the University of Exeter.

Pappé is one of the “New Historians,” a group of Israeli historians who have challenged the official historical narrative of the establishment of the State of Israel. His most famous book is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, published in English in 2006. Pappé argues that the traditional narrative of Israeli history is built upon deliberate lies and that the Zionists forcefully displaced the Indigenous Arab population of Palestine in 1948 in a systematic act of ethnic cleansing. The book has sparked debate and criticism within the academic and political community, with some praising Pappé as a courageous historian while others, including other New Historians like Benny Morris, have found fault with his methodology. Critics including Morris and historian Adam Raz have pointed out that some of the most incendiary claims in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, such as the