Böcker av Ilan Pappe

The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ';Israel's bravest historian' (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "e;ethnic cleansing"e;. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

What are the myths - and reality - behind the state of Israel

Jeder Versuch zur Lösung eines Konflikts muss sich zu allererst mit dessen Kern auseinandersetzen und dieser Kern findet sich meistens in seiner Geschichte. Eine verfälschte oder manipulierte Geschichte erklärt oft gut, warum ein Konflikt nicht beendet wurde, während eine wahrhaftige, umfassende Betrachtung der Vergangenheit zu einem dauerhaften Frieden und einer bleibenden Lösung beitragen kann. Wie die Untersuchung des Falls Israel/Palästina zeigt, kann eine falsch verstandene Geschichte der jüngeren oder ferneren Vergangenheit sogar noch direkteren Schaden anrichten: Sie kann die Unterdrückung, Kolonisierung und Besatzung von heute rechtfertigen. Es überrascht nicht, dass in solchen Fällen auch die Gegenwart verfälscht wird, ist sie doch Teil der Geschichte, deren Vergangenheit bereits entstellt wurde. Diese Täuschungen über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart verhindern das Verständnis des fraglichen Konfliktes, erlauben eine Manipulation der Fakten und richten sich gegen die Interessen all jener, die Opfer des Konfliktes sind.Die Tatsache, dass die israelische und zionistische Version der Geschichte des umstrittenen Landes in Deutschland weitgehend akzeptiert wird, basiert auf einer ganzen Ansammlung von Mythen, die alle darin münden, das moralische Recht und das ethische Verhalten der Palästinenser ins Zwielicht zu rücken, was allerdings jede Chance auf einen zukünftigen gerechten Frie-den enorm verringert.

The Middle East and South Asia 2020¿2022 provides students with vital information on the Middle East and South Asia countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.

The untold history of how pro-Israel lobbying groups influence US and British policy

The Middle East and South Asia 2020-2022 provides students with vital information on the Middle East and South Asia countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.

Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians

Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn onZionism, the movement behind its creation, toprovide a sense of self and political direction. In thisgroundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at thecontinued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israelconsiders the way Zionism operates outside of thegovernment and military in areas such as the country'seducation system, media, and cinema, and theuses that are made of the Holocaust in supportingthe state's ideological structure.In particular, Pappe examines the way successivegenerations of historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating afoundation myth that went unquestioned in Israelisociety until the 1990s. Pappe himself was part ofthe post-Zionist movement that arose then. He wasattacked and received death threats as he exposedthe truth about how Palestinians have been treatedand the gruesome structure that links the productionof knowledge to the exercise of power. The Ideaof Israel is a powerful and urgent intervention in thewar of ideas concerning the past, and the future, ofthe PalestinianIsraeli conflict.

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten.In this book, historian Ilan Papp examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Papp analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.

Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. *BR**BR*Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of Theodor Herzl, Pappe was barely aware of the Nakba in his high school years. This intellectual biography traces his journey of discovery, from the whispers of Palestinian classmates, to his realisation that the 'enemy's' narrative of 1948 was correct, and his vow to protect the memory of the Nakba. For the first time he gives the details of the formidable opposition he faced in Israel, including death threats fed by the media, denunciations by the Knesset and calls for him to be sacked from his post at Haifa university.*BR**BR*This revealing work, written with dignity and humour, highlights Israel's difficulty in facing up to its past and forging a peaceful, inclusive future in Palestine.

Describes the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 in different ways. This book integrates archival material with the findings of scholarship to present the reader with a comprehensive and general history of the origins and consequences of the 1948 war.

In an analysis of Britain's policy towards Palestine in the post-mandatory era, the author examines the circumstances which led to the formulation of Britain's policy - the partition of mandatory Palestine between Israel and Jordan - and the stages of its implementation.

Gaza in Crisis is Noam Chomsky's clear-sighted analysis of an area in a desperate impasse.From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters.In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Papp survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza in the context of Israel's long-standing war against the Palestinians. It is a rigorous, historically informed and much-needed analysis of the situation and will be welcomed by all those eager for Chomsky's and Papp 's insights into yet another political catastrophe.'Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today' The New York Times Book Review'Ilan Papp is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian' John PilgerNoam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes and Hopes and Prospects, all of which are published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. Ilan Papp is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre at the University of Exeter, and the author of various books, including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld).