The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East

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 “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

‘Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.’

—John Pilger

Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and political scientist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Pappé was born in Haifa. Prior to coming to the UK, he was a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa

and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa

More details about the book can be found on Wikipedia : https://shorturl.at/eBSW5

Free to download as a PDF here: https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Pappe-Ilan-The-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Palestine.pdf

Available on audible (free to subscribers) https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B077KLQBV2?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp

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