Ilan Pappé#Katz controversy

Pappé was born in Haifa, Israel, to a family of Ashkenazi Jews. His parents were German Jews who had fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s. At the age of 18, he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He then moved to England to study history at the University of Oxford, completing a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1984 under the supervision of British historians Albert Hourani and Roger Owen. His doctoral thesis was titled "British foreign policy towards the Middle East, 1948-1951: Britain and the Arab-Israeli conflict"{{cite thesis |last=Pappé |first=Ilan |date=1901 |title=British foreign policy towards the Middle East, 1948-1951: Britain and the Arab-Israeli conflict |degree=DPhil |publisher=University of Oxford |url= https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/35n82s/alma990116829230107026 |access-date= 7 November 2023}} and this became his first book, titled Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

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Pappé was a senior lecturer at the Middle Eastern History Department and the Political Science Department of the University of Haifa between 1984 and 2006.{{cite web|url=http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/9187|title=The False Paradigm of Parity and Partition: Revisiting 1967|website=international.ucla.edu|access-date=6 August 2018|archive-date=6 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806115542/http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/9187|url-status=live}} He was the Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva from 1993 to 2000, and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies.

Pappé left Israel in 2007 to take up his appointment in Exeter, after his endorsement of the boycott of Israeli universities led the president of the University of Haifa to call for his resignation.{{cite news |url= http://www.haaretz.com/news/haifa-university-president-calls-on-dissident-academic-to-resign-1.156977 |last= Traubman |first= Tamara |date= 26 April 2005 |title= Haifa University president calls on dissident academic to resign |newspaper= Haaretz |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 14 March 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170314092238/http://www.haaretz.com/news/haifa-university-president-calls-on-dissident-academic-to-resign-1.156977 |url-status= live }} Pappé said that he found it "increasingly difficult to live in Israel" with his "unwelcome views and convictions." In a Qatari newspaper interview explaining his decision, he said: "I was boycotted in my university and there had been attempts to expel me from my job. I am getting threatening calls from people every day. I am not being viewed as a threat to the Israeli society but my people think that I am either insane or my views are irrelevant. Many Israelis also believe that I am working as a mercenary for the Arabs."{{cite news |url= http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=56753 |last= Paul |first= Jonny |date= 1 April 2007 |title= Academic slams Israel for land grab |newspaper= The Jerusalem Post |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 5 February 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110205061843/http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=56753 |url-status= live }} He joined Exeter as Professor of History, and has been director of its European Centre for Palestine Studies since 2009.{{cite web |title=Professor Ilan Pappé |url=https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/staff/pappe/ |website=Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |publisher=University of Exeter |access-date=7 November 2023 |archive-date=7 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107123624/https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/staff/pappe/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=The European Centre for Palestine Studies: About us |url=https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/palestine/about/ |website=Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |publisher=University of Exeter |access-date=7 November 2023 |archive-date=7 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107123624/https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/palestine/about/ |url-status=live }}

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Pappé publicly supported an M.A. thesis by Haifa University student Teddy Katz, which was approved with highest honors, that claimed Israel had committed a massacre in the Palestinian village of Tantura during the war in 1948, based upon interviews with Arab residents of the village and with an Israeli veteran of the operation.{{cite news |last= Segev |first= Tom |author-link= Tom Segev |title= His colleagues call him a traitor |date= 23 May 2002 |newspaper= Haaretz |url= http://www.haaretz.com/his-colleagues-call-him-a-traitor-1.44340 |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 4 May 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170504232740/http://www.haaretz.com/his-colleagues-call-him-a-traitor-1.44340 |url-status= live }} Neither Israeli nor Palestinian historians had previously recorded any such incident, which Meyrav Wurmser described as a "made-up massacre".{{cite journal |url= http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/000/099jjldm.asp |last=Wurmser |first=Meyrav |author-link=Meyrav Wurmser |year=2001 |title= Made-Up Massacre |journal=The Weekly Standard |volume=6 |issue=48 |access-date=17 May 2012 |archive-date=3 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603142206/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/000/099jjldm.asp |url-status=dead }} According to Pappé, "the story of Tantura had already been told before, as early as 1950... It appears in the memoirs of a Haifa notable, Muhammad Nimr al-Khatib, who, a few days after the battle, recorded the testimony of a Palestinian."The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, p. 137. In December 2000, Katz was sued for libel by veterans of the Alexandroni Brigade and after the testimony was heard, he retracted his allegations about the massacre. Twelve hours later, he retracted his retraction.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} During the trial, lawyers for the veterans pointed to what they said were discrepancies between the taped interviews Katz conducted and descriptions in Katz's thesis.{{cite news |url= http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pa-paid-legal-defense-fees-of-1948-tantura-affair-historian-1.35323 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110805114826/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pa-paid-legal-defense-fees-of-1948-tantura-affair-historian-1.35323 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 5 August 2011 |last= Ratner |first= David |date= 9 February 2012 |title= PA paid legal defense fees of 1948 Tantura affair historian |newspaper= Haaretz |access-date=20 May 2012 }}

Katz revised his thesis, and, following the trial, the university appointed a committee to examine it. After reviewing the taped interviews and finding discrepancies between them and what was written in the thesis, Katz was allowed to submit a revised thesis. Pappé continues to defend both Katz and his thesis.{{cite journal |url= http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/01-06-04pappe-palestine-studies-1.pdf |last= Pappé |first= Ilan |year= 2001a |title= The Tantura Massacre, 22–23 May 1948 |journal= Journal of Palestine Studies |volume= 30 |issue= 3 |pages= 5–18 |doi= 10.1525/jps.2001.30.3.5 |access-date= 19 May 2012 |archive-date= 27 April 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120427234849/http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/01-06-04pappe-palestine-studies-1.pdf |url-status= dead }}{{cite journal |url= http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/01-06-04pappe-palestine-studies-2.pdf |last= Pappé |first= Ilan |year= 2001b |title= The Tantura Case in Israel: The Katz Research and Trial |journal= Journal of Palestine Studies |volume= 30 |issue= 3 |pages= 19–39 |doi= 10.1525/jps.2001.30.3.19 |hdl= 10871/15238 |hdl-access= free |access-date= 19 May 2012 |archive-date= 10 February 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120210011129/http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/01-06-04pappe-palestine-studies-2.pdf |url-status= dead }} Tom Segev and others argued that there is merit or some truth in what Katz described.{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/10/worlddispatch.suzannegoldenberg |last= Goldenberg |first= Suzanne |date= 10 December 2001 |title= Confronting the past |work= guardian.co.uk |access-date= 20 May 2012 |quote= 'The question of whether the Alexandroni Brigade troopers did indeed murder residents of Tantura and the place of the entire episode in the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians still remains,' the historian Tom Segev wrote in the Ha'aretz newspaper. |archive-date= 9 April 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190409102926/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/10/worlddispatch.suzannegoldenberg |url-status= live }} According to the Israeli New Historian Benny Morris: "There is no unequivocal proof of a large-scale massacre at Tantura, but war crimes were perpetrated there."{{cite news |url= http://www.haaretz.com/survival-of-the-fittest-1.61345 |last=Shavit |first=Ari |author-link=Ari Shavit |date=8 January 2004 |title=Survival of the fittest |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=17 May 2012 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030132854/https://www.haaretz.com/survival-of-the-fittest-1.61345 |url-status=live }}

In January 2022, Alon Schwarz's film Tantura was shown at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Competition. In it, former Israeli soldiers admitted that a massacre took place in 1948 at Tantura. One former combat soldier stated: "They silenced it. The victims of the massacre were buried under what is today the Dor Beach parking lot, in an area measuring 35×4 meters." {{interlanguage link|Adam Raz|he|אדם רז}} commented in Haaretz that there had been a public debate about the issue, with Yoav Gelber trying to discredit Katz's thesis, while Pappé defended the thesis. Raz said: "With the appearance of the testimony in Schwarz's film, the debate would seem to be decided."[https://archive.today/20220121183638/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-there-s-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess-1.10553968 There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess], {{interlanguage link|Adam Raz|he|אדם רז}}, Jan. 20, 2022, Haaretz

In 1999, Pappé ran in the Knesset elections as seventh on the Communist Party-led Hadash list.{{cite web |url= https://www.knesset.gov.il/elections/asp/party.asp?id=6 |title= 1996 election results for Hadash—Democratic Front for Peace and Equality |publisher= knesset.gov.il |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 8 October 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121008191058/http://www.knesset.gov.il/elections/asp/party.asp?id=6 |url-status= live }} (Pappé is No. 7)

After years of political activism, Pappé supports economic and political boycotts of Israel, including an academic boycott. He believes boycotts are justified because "the Israeli occupation is a dynamic process and it becomes worse with each passing day. The AUT can choose to stand by and do nothing, or to be part of a historical movement similar to the anti-apartheid campaign against the white supremacist regime in South Africa. By choosing the latter, it can move us forward along the only remaining viable and non-violent road to saving both Palestinians and Israelis from an impending catastrophe."{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/may/24/highereducation.internationaleducationnews |last= Pappé |first= Ilan |date= 24 May 2005 |title= Back the boycott |newspaper= The Guardian |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 3 March 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193325/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/may/24/highereducation.internationaleducationnews |url-status= live }}

{{blockquote|If it is possible Israel's conduct in 1948 would be brought onto the stage of international tribunals; this may deliver a message even to the peace camp in Israel that reconciliation entails recognition of war crimes and collective atrocities. This cannot be done from within, as any reference in the Israeli press to expulsion, massacre or destruction in 1948 is usually denied and attributed to self hate and service to the enemy in times of war. This reaction encompasses academia, the media and educational system, as well as political circles.{{cite book |last= Pappé |first= Ilan |year= 2005 |chapter= The Process That Never Was |editor1-last= Podeh |editor1-first= Elie |editor2-last= Kaufman |editor2-first= Asher |title= Arab-Jewish Relations: From Conflict to Resolution? |location= Brighton |publisher= Sussex Academic Press |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=MOzJeyjF2_UC&pg=PA244 244]}}}}

As a result, then University of Haifa President Aaron Ben-Ze'ev called on Pappé to resign, saying: "it is fitting for someone who calls for a boycott of his university to apply the boycott himself." He said that Pappé would not be ostracized, since that would undermine academic freedom, but he should leave voluntarily.{{cite news |url= http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haifa-u-academic-remains-steadfast-in-support-of-boycott-1.157023 |last= Traubman |first= Tamara |date= 27 April 2005 |title= Haifa U. academic remains steadfast in support of boycott |newspaper= Haaretz |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 24 September 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924221754/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haifa-u-academic-remains-steadfast-in-support-of-boycott-1.157023 |url-status= live }} In the same year, Pappé initiated the annual Israeli Right of Return Conferences, which called for the unconditional right of return of the Palestinian refugees who were expelled in 1948. According to Pappé, while national movements deserve a state of their own, this principle does not extend to Jews because they constitute a religious group rather than a nation.{{cite interview |last=Pappé |first=Ilan |interviewer=Eli Hassell |title=There Will Be a Palestinian Uprising! |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiWHkdVEO8M&t=1893s |access-date=3 July 2024 |date=16 June 2024}}

In August 2015, Pappé was a signatory to a letter criticising The Jewish Chronicle{{'}}s reporting of Jeremy Corbyn's association with alleged antisemites.{{cite news|last=Dysch|first=Marcus|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/142553/anti-israel-activists-attack-jc-challenging-jeremy-corbyn|title=Anti-Israel activists attack JC for challenging Jeremy Corbyn|newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle|date=18 August 2015|access-date=7 April 2018|archive-date=16 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916131617/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/142553/anti-israel-activists-attack-jc-challenging-jeremy-corbyn|url-status=live}} In 2023, he described Israel as committing an "incremental genocide" of the Palestinian people.{{Cite web |last=Pappe |first=Ilan |date=2023-03-16 |title=Using the Right Language: The 'Incremental Genocide' of the Palestinians Continues |url=https://www.palestinechronicle.com/using-the-right-language-the-incremental-genocide-of-the-palestinians-continues/ |website=Palestine Chronicle |access-date=2 November 2023 |archive-date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102205934/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/using-the-right-language-the-incremental-genocide-of-the-palestinians-continues/ |url-status=live }} During the Gaza war, Pappé reaffirmed his opposition to Zionism, writing that "this violence is not a new phenomenon," and called for a "de-zionised, liberated and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea."{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2023-10-10 |title=My Israeli Friends: This is Why I Support Palestinians - ILAN PAPPE |url=https://www.palestinechronicle.com/my-israeli-friends-this-is-why-i-support-palestinians-ilan-pappe/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Palestine Chronicle |language=en-US |archive-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012145533/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/my-israeli-friends-this-is-why-i-support-palestinians-ilan-pappe/ |url-status=live }} He called for the Israeli government to conduct a prisoner exchange in order to release the hostages held by Hamas.{{Cite web |title=Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé on the Context Behind Current Violence |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/31/ilan_pappe_israel_invades_gaza |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en |archive-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101194443/https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/31/ilan_pappe_israel_invades_gaza |url-status=live }} Pappé's comments following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023 drew criticism from The Telegraph and parts of the student body at the University of Exeter, namely in stating he had admiration for Hamas militants' courage and ability to take over military bases in Israel and rejected the claim that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, although he condemned the attack.{{Cite news |last=Parker |first=Fiona |date=2023-11-18 |title=Exeter University professor 'admires courage' of Hamas 'fighters' |language=en-GB |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/18/exeter-professor-admires-courage-hamas/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-11-19 |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=19 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119005032/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/18/exeter-professor-admires-courage-hamas/ |url-status=live }} In May 2024, Pappé said he was questioned at Detroit airport for two hours by the Department of Homeland Security,{{Cite news |last=Pappé |first=Ilan |date=2024-05-21 |title=I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/ilan-pappe-israel-gaza-zionism |access-date=2024-05-21 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} and that his phone was copied.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newarab.com/news/ilan-pappe-interrogated-us-airport-2-hours-over-gaza|title=Ilan Pappe interrogated at US airport for 2 hours over Gaza|first=The New Arab|last=Staff|date=16 May 2024|website=www.newarab.com/}}

In an op-ed to Al-Jazeera on 7 October 2024, Pappé argued that terms like "Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas" or "peace process," commonly used by Western and U.S. media, are misleading. He suggested that it is more accurate to speak of "Palestinian resistance" and the "decolonization of Palestine from the river to the sea." He mentioned that "mainstream academia and media still refuse to define the Zionist project as a colonial, or as it is referred to more accurately a settler-colonial project", and further contended that the original Zionist vision "of planting a European Jewish state at the heart of the Arab world through the dispossession of the Palestinians was illogical, immoral and impractical from the onset."{{cite news |last1=Pappe |first1=Ilan |date=7 Oct 2024 |title=Israel after October 7: Between decolonisation and disintegration |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/7/israel-after-october-7-between-decolonisation-and-disintegration |agency=Al-Jazeera}}

Israeli scholar {{interlanguage link|Emmanuel Sivan|he|עמנואל סיון}}, reviewing Pappé's 2003 political biography of the al-Husayni family, praised the book's treatment of the development of Palestinian nationalism and that of Haj Amin's exile in Germany, but criticised the view taken on the mufti's visit to the German consul and the scant attention given to Faisal Husseini.{{cite news |last=Sivan |first=Emmanuel |date=11 April 2003 |title=A family tree whose roots are still hidden |newspaper= Haaretz |quote= Pappe has written a book that begins with a roar but ends in a whimper. |url= http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/a-family-tree-whose-roots-are-still-hidden-1.13246 |access-date= 18 May 2012 |archive-date= 30 November 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101130190300/http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/a-family-tree-whose-roots-are-still-hidden-1.13246 |url-status= live }}

In a review for Arab Studies Quarterly, Seif Da'Na described Pappé's 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine as a "highly documented narrative of the events" surrounding the Nakba and an example of "serious scholarship that only a virtuoso historiographer could produce".{{cite journal |title=Ilan Pappé. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine |journal=Arab Studies Quarterly |volume=29 |issue=3–4 | year=2007 |first=Seif |last=Da'Na}} Arab Studies Quarterly also praised Pappé's 2017 book Ten Myths About Israel, describing it as "well-documented" and an "invaluable and courageous contribution" from an "insightful" historian.{{cite journal|url=|title=Pappé, Ilan. Ten Myths about Israel.|journal=Arab Studies Quarterly|volume=Summer 2019|year=2019}} In a review for the journal Global Governance, Rashmi Singh praised Pappé's 2014 book The Idea of Israel as a "courageous and unflinching study of the role of Zionism in the creation of [...] the state of Israel".{{cite journal |url=|title=The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge |journal=Global Governance |volume=21 |issue=1 |year=2015 |first=Rashmi |last=Singh}} However, Singh did feel that the book assumes the reader has prior knowledge of the Arab-Israeli conflict and thus may be difficult to follow for "those who are not conversant with the facts".

Uri Ram, a professor of Ben-Gurion University, reviewed The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine for the Middle East Journal and described the book as "a most important and daring book that challenges head-on Israeli historiography and collective memory and even more importantly Israeli conscience".{{cite journal|title=Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|author=Uri Ram|journal=Middle East Journal|pages=150–152|volume=62|issue=1|year=2008|jstor=25482478}} The same book was reviewed by Hugh Steadman for the New Zealand International Review, in which he called Pappé's book the "definitive record of the caesarean operation by which the state of Israel was born" and "essential reading" for those who wish to see a "peaceful and internationally acceptable Middle Eastern home for Jewish people".{{cite journal|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|author=Hugh Steadman|journal=New Zealand International Review|pages=29–30|volume=33|issue=1|year=2008|jstor=45235739}}

Those critical of his work include Benny Morris,{{cite magazine |url= http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/politics-other-means-0 |last= Morris |first= Benny |date= 22 March 2004 |title= Politics by Other Means |magazine= The New Republic |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 24 April 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200424033731/http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/politics-other-means-0 |url-status= live }}{{cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/85344/ilan-pappe-sloppy-dishonest-historian|title=The Liar as Hero|magazine=The New Republic|first=Benny|last=Morris|date=17 March 2011|accessdate=19 March 2021|archive-date=14 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914223308/http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books/magazine/85344/ilan-pappe-sloppy-dishonest-historian|url-status=live}} Efraim Karsh, and activist Herbert London as well as professors {{interlanguage link|Daniel Gutwein|he|דני גוטוויין}}{{cite book |last=Gutwein |first=Daniel |title=Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right |publisher=Frank Cass Publishers |year=2003 |editor1-last=Shapira |editor1-first=Anita |location=London |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=2VVsrUFby04C&pg=PA15 16–8] |chapter=Left and Right Post-Zionism and the Privatization of Israeli Collective Memory |editor2-last=Penslar |editor2-first=Derek Jonathan}}Gutwein (2011). "Left and Right Post-Zionism", p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VVsrUFby04C&pg=PA100&dq=%22shafir+and+pappe%22%22mislead+their+readers%22 100]. and Yossi Ben-Artzi{{cite journal |url= http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/11-04-12Ben-Artzi-on-Pappé-Israel-Studies.pdf |last= Ben-Artzi |first= Yossi |year= 2011 |title= Out of (Academic) Focus: on Ilan Pappe, Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel |journal= Israel Studies |volume= 16 |issue= 2 |pages= 165–183 |doi= 10.2979/israelstudies.16.2.165 |s2cid= 142819418 |access-date= 19 May 2012 |archive-date= 27 March 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120327153901/http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/11-04-12Ben-Artzi-on-Pappe-Israel-Studies.pdf |url-status= dead }} from Haifa University. Morris, in particular, described some of Pappé's writing as "complete fabrication" due to alleged factual errors, and called him "at best...one of the world's sloppiest historians; at worst, one of the most dishonest". Pappé has replied to this criticism, condemning Morris for holding "abominable racist views about the Arabs in general and the Palestinians in particular."{{cite news |url= http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/one-man-s-history-is-another-man-s-lie-1.121274 |last= Shehori |first= Dalia |date= 5 May 2004 |title= One man's history is another man's lie |newspaper= Haaretz |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 10 January 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180110174438/https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/one-man-s-history-is-another-man-s-lie-1.121274 |url-status= live }}{{cite web |url= http://electronicintifada.net/content/response-benny-morris-politics-other-means-new-republic/5040 |last= Pappé |first= Ilan |date= 30 March 2004 |title= Response to Benny Morris' "Politics by other means" in the New Republic |publisher= The Electronic Intifada |access-date= 17 May 2012 |archive-date= 13 June 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200613074018/https://electronicintifada.net/content/response-benny-morris-politics-other-means-new-republic/5040 |url-status= live }}

Pappé's approach to historiography has been characterised as post-modernist. According to Morris, "Pappé is a proud postmodernist. He believes that there is no such thing as historical truth, only a collection of narratives as numerous as the participants in any given event or process; and each narrative, each perspective, is as valid and legitimate, as true, as the next. Moreover, every narrative is inherently political and, consciously or not, serves political ends. Each historian is justified in shaping his narrative to promote particular political purposes."{{cite magazine |last1=Benny |first1=Morris |date=22 March 2004 |title=Politics by Other Means |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/61715/politics-other-means-0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210708010216/https://newrepublic.com/article/61715/politics-other-means-0 |archive-date=8 July 2021 |access-date=4 July 2024 |magazine=The New Republic}} In response, Pappé stated that all historians are necessarily "subjective human beings striving to tell their own version of the past" and that he is worried about "moral issues not the natural human follies of professional historians."

In August 2021, following the translation of his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine into Hebrew, the historian {{interlanguage link|Adam Raz|he|אדם רז}} published a review in Haaretz{{Cite web|last=Raz|first=Adam|date=August 6, 2021|others="Books" Appendix|title=Selective Reading|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-REVIEW-1.10077112|website=Ha'aretz|pages=76–79|language=Hebrew|access-date=11 August 2021|archive-date=11 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811121443/https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-REVIEW-1.10077112|url-status=live}} criticizing Pappé as a historian whose work "suffers from negligence, manipulations and mistakes galore, and the result is not serious research". In the article, Raz presents various examples of "lies", inaccuracies, and the lack of sources for Pappé's various claims, the most prominent of which is the latter's claim that "rape took place in every village," without citing a source, while ignoring publications that contradict this claim, such as Tal Nitzan's study: "Boundaries of Occupation: The Rarity of Military Rape in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict".{{Cite web|last=Nitzan|first=Tal|author-link=Tal Nitzan|date=1977|title=Boundaries of Occupation: The Rarity of Military Rape in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict|url=https://www3.openu.ac.il/ouweb/owal/new_books1.book_desc?in_mis_cat=112530|website=The Israeli Open University|language=Hebrew|access-date=11 August 2021|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507032446/https://www3.openu.ac.il/ouweb/owal/new_books1.book_desc?in_mis_cat=112530|url-status=live}} The title of the article "Selective Reading" refers, among other things, to such a reading of the diaries of Theodor Herzl and Ben-Gurion, Berl Katzenelson and Israel Galili.

• {{Cite book

|title=Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

|last=Pappé |first=Ilan

|publisher=Oneworld Publications

|year=2024

|isbn=9780861544028

|location=London

|url=https://oneworld-publications.com/work/lobbying-for-zionism-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic/

}} See also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Iw2fm58FY The Israel Lobby Is Real. This Is How It Works | Aaron Bastani meets Ilan Pappé], Youtube, 2024 Jun 16, and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXIbXYt6YY The Israel Lobby with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt | Outside the Box Podcast], Youtube, 2024 Apr 17.

• {{Cite book |title=The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories |last=Pappé |first=Ilan |publisher=Oneworld Publications |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-85168-587-5 |location=London |url=https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-biggest-prison-on-earth/ |author-mask=0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014230759/https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-biggest-prison-on-earth/ |archive-date=2023-10-14 |url-status=live}}
• Ten Myths About Israel. New York: Verso. 2017. {{ISBN|9781786630193}}
• (with Noam Chomsky) {{cite book |title= On Palestine |location= Chicago |publisher= Haymarket Books |year=2015 |isbn= 978-1-60846-470-8}}
• {{cite book |title= The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge |location= New York |publisher= Verso |year= 2014 }}
• "The Boycott Will Work: An Israeli Perspective" in Audrea Lim (ed.) {{cite book |title= The Case for Sanctions Against Israel |location= London & Brooklyn, NY |publisher= Verso |year= 2012 }}
• {{cite book |title= The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel |location= New Haven, CT |publisher= Yale University Press |year= 2011 }}
• (with Noam Chomsky) Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Hamish Hamilton, 2010). {{ISBN|978-0-241-14506-7}}
• {{cite book |title= Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel |location= London |publisher= Pluto Press |year= 2010 }}
• {{cite book |title= The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700–1948 |location= London |publisher= Saqi Books |year= 2010 }}
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (London and New York: Oneworld, 2006). {{ISBN|1-85168-467-0}}
• The Modern Middle East (London and New York: Routledge, 2005). {{ISBN|0-415-21409-2}}
• A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2004), {{ISBN|0-521-55632-5}}
• (With Jamil Hilal). Parlare Con il Nemico, Narrazioni palestinesi e israeliane a confronto (Milano: Bollati Boringhieri, 2004).
• The Aristocracy: The Husaynis; A Political Biography (Jerusalem: Mossad Byalik, (Hebrew), 2003).
• The Israel-Palestine Question (London and New York: Routledge, 1999; 2006). {{ISBN|0-415-16948-8}}
• (with M. Maoz). History From Within: Politics and Ideas in Middle East (London and New York: Tauris, 1997). {{ISBN|1-86064-012-5}}
• (with J. Nevo). Jordan in the Middle East: The Making of a Pivotal State (London: Frank Cass, 1994). {{ISBN|0-7146-3454-9}}
• The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951 (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1992; 1994). {{ISBN|1-85043-819-6}}
• Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–1951 (London: St. Antony's College Series, Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). {{ISBN|0-312-01573-9}}

• [http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/essay-of-the-week-what-drives-israel-1.1032971 "What drives Israel?"], Essay of the week, Herald Scotland (6 June 2010). [https://archive.today/20130125034700/http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/essay-of-the-week-what-drives-israel-1.1032971 Archived] from the original on 25 Jan 2013.
• [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7036.shtml "Towards a Geography of Peace: Whither Gaza?"], The Electronic Intifada (18 June 2007).
• [http://www.badil.org/en/component/k2/item/957-calling-a-spade-a-spadethe-1948-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine.html "Calling a Spade a Spade: The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605083645/http://www.badil.org/en/component/k2/item/957-calling-a-spade-a-spadethe-1948-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine.html |date=5 June 2016 }}, article in al-Majdal Magazine (Spring 2006). [retrieved 17 May 2007].
• [http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1490283,00.html "Back the boycott,"] The Guardian, (24 May 2005).
• [http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=147 "Haj Amin and the Buraq Revolt"], Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 18 (June 2003). [https://archive.today/20130503053752/http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=147 Archived] from the original on 3 May 2013.
• [http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021020_pappe.html "The '48 Nakba & The Zionist Quest for its Completion"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208095255/http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021020_pappe.html |date=8 February 2019 }}, Between The Lines (October 2002). [retrieved 23 February 2012].
• [http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=201 "The Husayni Family Faces New Challenges: Tanzimat, Young Turks, the Europeans and Zionism 1840–1922, Part II"], Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 11–12 (Winter-Spring 2001). [retrieved 23 February 2012]
• Ilan Pappé, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101228215610/http://palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=4227&jid=1&href=fulltext "The Tantura Case in Israel: The Katz Research and Trial]," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 19–39. [retrieved 23 February 2012].
• Ilan Pappé, [http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/ViewArticle.aspx?id=213 "The Rise and Fall of the Husainis (Part 1),"] Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 10 (Autumn 2000).
• Ilan Pappé, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110831054620/http://www.palestine-studies.org/enakba/history/Pappe,%20Review%20Essay,%20Israeli%20Television's%20Fiftieth%20Anniversary%20Series.pdf "Review Essay, Israeli Television's Fiftieth Anniversary "Tekumma" Series: A Post-Zionist View?,"] Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Summer 1998), pp. 99–105, Institute for Palestinian Studies.
• Ilan Pappé, [https://electronicintifada.net/content/destruction-al-aqsa-no-conspiracy-theory/14991 Destruction of al-Aqsa is no conspiracy theory], The Electronic Intifada, 10 November 2015.

• Avi Shlaim

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZwc9SIUms Ilan Pappe Talk - Part 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406132328/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZwc9SIUms |date=6 April 2023 }} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMv6cmhU6hY Ilan Pappe Talk - Part 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422222718/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMv6cmhU6hY |date=22 April 2022 }} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPP6j8-nLWI Ilan Pappe Talk - Part 3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405192536/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPP6j8-nLWI |date=5 April 2023 }} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Lb_r29Hjg Ilan Pappe Talk - Part 4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405231431/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Lb_r29Hjg |date=5 April 2023 }} Talk by Ilan Pappe at Oxford University, February 2007
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080331231457/http://flashpoints.net/archive/archive-2007-May-all.html#2007-05-28 Pappé speaking in Amsterdam on "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", January 28, 2007] (broadcast on Flashpoints / KPFA-FM, Berkeley, 28 May 2007)
• [http://www.logosjournal.com/pappe.htm "Power and History in the Middle East: A Conversation with Ilan Pappe"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519060303/http://www.logosjournal.com/pappe.htm |date=19 May 2012 }}, Logos, Winter 2004
• [http://www.labournet.net/world/0209/pappe1.html Interview with Ilan Pappé by LabourNet UK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515235815/http://www.labournet.net/world/0209/pappe1.html |date=15 May 2009 }}
• [http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-IsraelDebate_181006_0900,00.html# SkyNews1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825033400/http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-IsraelDebate_181006_0900,00.html |date=25 August 2007 }} or [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929210406/http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/IsraelDebate_181006_0900.wmv Sky News2] — brief debate between Ilan Pappé and Ephraim Karsh on Sky News, 18 October 2006.
• [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=572912 Alone on the Barricades], Meron Rappaport interviews Ilan Pappé about Teddy Katz and the AUT boycott, Haaretz, 2005
• [https://archive.org/details/IlanPappeEthnicCleansingofPalestine_31 Nadim Mahjoub interviews Ilan Pappe on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine], Resonance FM Radio, London, UK, 27 October 2006

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