Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé is one of Israel’s New Historians. He has been rewriting the history of Israel’s creation since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the 1980s. He was a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa (1984–2007) and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa (2000–2008) before he left Israel, after he was condemned in the Knesset and received death threats. Pappé is a prolific writer, editor, and public intellectual. His books include The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (London: OneWorld, 2007); The Modern Middle East: A Social and Cultural History (Milton Park, Abington, UK: Routledge, 2005); and A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is a professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, in the UK.