He is a substantial writer, with over five major works on Middle Eastern history and politics to his credit. Pappe has always been controversial within his own homeland as the most ‘revisionist’ within the segment of the new historiography that has come out of Israel. In many ways, Pappe is carrying on the work of many other writers in the field of revisionist Israeli history and particularly those of writers such as Benny Morris, Nur Masalha and Walid Khalidi, albeit in a more nuanced, emphatic and clear manner. Pappe is one among the ‘New Israeli Historians’ along with others such as Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim and the present Editor of Holy Land Studies, Nur Masalha. Pappe is hardly a stranger to the pages of this journal, having been a regular contributor to it (as well as serving on its editorial board), since its inception in the early years of this decade under the co-editorship of the late Michael Prior. Having taught for over two decades at the University of Haifa in Israel, he is now on the faculty list of the University of Exeter in the UK. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1984. Pappe was born in Haifa (Israel) in 1954. This work has been fittingly dedicated by the author to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948. Professor Ilan Pappe's ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’ will most certainly be classified as one of the most painstakingly researched books on the Israel-Palestine question to emerge to date.
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