Dr. Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and a professor at the University of Exeter. Pappé is a prolific author, with titles including: Ten Myths about Israel (New York: Verso Books, 2017), The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation (Oxford: Oneworld, 2012), and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (London and New York: Oneworld, 2006). His publication, Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid, explores similarities and differences in apartheid between Israel and South Africa. Pappe’s other books include The Modern Middle East, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
In this interview, Pappé describes the evolution of his own understanding of Israel-Palestine when he realized that what he had been taught about Israel’s founding conflicted with historical record. Learn more about Ilan Pappé at the Promised Land Museum.
