Professor; Jewish Israeli “New Historian” and Political Scientist
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Book(s):
- “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” (September 1, 2007)
- “On Palestine”
(2015) — by Noam Chomksy and Illan Pappé - “Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians” (2013) — by Noam Chomksy and Illan Pappé
- “A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict”
- “Ten Myths About Israel” (2017)
- “Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic”
(July 15, 2025)
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Social Media:
NOTABLE QUOTE(S):
“Most Zionists don’t believe that God exists, but they. do believe that he promised them Palestine.”
“… I want to talk about 1948. This is the war of independence. All settler colonial projects are implanted by violence, as was the one in the United States. The difference is that I think, by 1600, over a 100-year period, 56 million indigenous inhabitants in North, Central, and South America were obliterated through either diseases or violence. So, by 1600, you only had about 10% of the original indigenous population remaining. That wholesale extermination essentially allows a settler colonial project to survive because there’s physically no opposition.
That’s not true in Israel. You have about 5.5 million Palestinians living under occupation, 9 million living in the diaspora. This, from the establishment of the state of Israel, is a huge problem for Israeli leaders. How are they going to cope? The demographic time bomb is real in terms of Arabs having larger families. You have huge flight, a kind of brain drain from Israel. I think there’s a million Israelis living in the United States. But let’s look at 1948 — how did they deal with the problem? And then we’ll go to 1967 when Israel occupies what is the remaining part of Palestine — the West Bank and Gaza.
Yes, as you rightly say, settler colonial projects always have these two dimensions: geography and demography, or, if you want, space and population. You want the space without the population. And the more space you take, the more unwanted population you have. So the Zionist leadership exploited the end of the mandate, the circumstances that developed in the region and in the world three years after the Holocaust, to implement a massive ethnic cleansing that left half of the Palestinians refugees, that expelled half of the Palestinian population, destroyed over 500 Palestinian villages, and demolished most of the Palestinian towns …”
ABOUT PROFESSOR ILAN PAPPÉ
“Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. ‘Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.’ NEW STATESMAN
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 ‘ethnic cleansing’. 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.”
(source: Bio from Amazon.com.)
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“Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן פפה ; born 7 November 1954) is an Israeli historian, political scientist, and former politician. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Pappé was also a board member of the Israeli political party Hadash, and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996] and 1999 Israeli legislative elections.
Pappé was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1954. Pappé is one of Israel’s New Historians; since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, he has written extensively on the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. Pappé’s work makes the case that the expulsions were the result of a systematic ethnic cleansing, for which Plan Dalet served as a blueprint.[5] Prior to coming to the United Kingdom, 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).[6] He left Israel in 2008 after being condemned in the Knesset and receiving several death threats.
He is the author of Ten Myths About Israel (2017), The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (2003), and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988).[8] With regard to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Pappé supports a one-state solution, advocating for a unitary state for both Palestinians and Israelis. As a critic of Israel, he has called for an international boycott of Israeli academics. He has also written articles for The Electronic Intifada …”
(source: Bio from wikipedia )
