Ilan Pappe Research Articles

Relational freedom and the Ilan Pappe case: an anthropological proposal for freedom

PurposeThis article problematizes the concept of freedom rooted in liberalism, examining the detention of historian Ilan Pappe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at Detroit Airport in the United States as an emblematic case study.Design/methodology/approachThe research adopts a methodological triangulation approach, based on an analysis that combines data about the event and theories about the concept of freedom, problematizing authors who focused on the relationship between the individual and society in a liberal context, where individualism serves as the basis for specific conceptions of social relations.FindingsThrough the use of authors such as John Stuart Mill and John Locke, as well as the contributions of authors like Norbert Elias, it is argued that true freedom is relational, rooted in social interdependencies and the social construction of an individuality that is not individualistic but intrinsically linked to collective aspects.Social implicationsPappe’s case illustrates the tensions between individual freedom and collective interests, highlighting the need to reassess freedom of expression in complex political and social contexts.Originality/valueThis article proposes a more inclusive and interconnected view of human freedom, where individual and collective interests are negotiated within a dynamic web of social relations.

Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War.

Shay Hazkani’s Dear Palestine is an innovative, compellingly written, and deeply researched contribution to the history of the 1948 Palestine war, the establishment of Israel, and the effacement of Palestine. Important histories of these events have previously focused on the question of Israel’s culpability in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem and specifically the issues of who in the Israeli leadership ordered expulsions and whether they were planned prior to the May invasion by Arab armies. Israeli historian Benny Morris paved the way of archival research into these controversies with his 1987 The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and revised his initial conclusions in later works. Nur Masalha, Ilan Pappe, and Efraim Karsh have since produced responses—Karsh defending Israel, and Masalha and Pappe indicting it. Hazkani indeed adds to our knowledge of these historical debates. His focus, however, differs from that of these other scholars. He argues that the war and the events of its immediate aftermath were meaning-making and identity-making enterprises for both Arabs and Jews. Through mobilization for the war and its conduct, elites and soldiers constituted and contested collective identities, including Arab, Jew, Muslim, Palestinian, Israeli, Mizrachi, and Ashkenazi. His project is not so much to establish what identities prevailed during this time as to recover how individuals and institutions—especially war- and state-making institutions—produced and debated collective identities. He eschews the nationalist binaries of Arab and Jew as primary analytical categories and instead examines how collective identities were discursively generated. Hazkani consequently brings to the history of 1948 elements of relational history exemplified by Zachary Lockman’s Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948 (1996) and Abigail Jacobson’s From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule (2011).

Review: The Biggest Prison on Earth: A New Narrative of the History of the Occupied Territories, by Ilan Pappe

Book Review| September 01 2021 Review: The Biggest Prison on Earth: A New Narrative of the History of the Occupied Territories, by Ilan Pappe The Biggest Prison on Earth: A New Narrative of the History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe, translated into Arabic by Adonis Salem (Beirut: Nawfal/Hachette Antoine, 2020). 368 pp. US$76.67. ISBN 9786144690598. Yesmine Koaik Yesmine Koaik Lebanese Political Researcher. Email: yesminekoaik@hotmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Contemporary Arab Affairs (2021) 14 (3): 146–153. https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2021.14.3.146 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Yesmine Koaik; Review: The Biggest Prison on Earth: A New Narrative of the History of the Occupied Territories, by Ilan Pappe. Contemporary Arab Affairs 1 September 2021; 14 (3): 146–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2021.14.3.146 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentContemporary Arab Affairs Search Ilan Pappe’s The Biggest Prison on Earth exposes Israeli violations in Palestine against its indigenous people. The Israeli historian reveals Israel’s ugly crimes against humanity over the years, using clear-cut evidence that indicts the settler colonial entity. Pappe comprehensively analyzes Zionist objectives in occupied Palestine, and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in different historical epochs. The Israeli historian’s latest work earned the “2017 Book of Palestine Award,” and it was recently translated into Arabic by the Nawfal/Hachette Antoine Lebanese publishing house. This new work par-excellence dealing with the history of the Palestinian occupied territories unmasks Zionist projects and violations of Palestinians’ rights since the ethnic cleansing of Palestine began in 1948. Pappe dedicates his book to the children of Palestine who endured killing, injury, and bullying because they live in the biggest prison on earth. The book includes a forward, introduction, and twelve chapters that make up 357 pages,... You do not currently have access to this content.

Memoricidio en Granada de Radwa Ashur

El artículo trata sobre el concepto de memoricidio en la trilogía Granada de la novelista egipcia Radwa Ashur. A lo largo de estas páginas se analizarán las fases del me- moricidio perpetrado contra los moriscos en la España de los siglos XV, XVI y XVII y se pondrá en correlación con la historia de los personajes de la novela. Por último, se verá cómo la autora está extrapolando ese memoricio al contexto árabe presente, en concreto al caso palestino. La metodología empleada es comparativa, puesto que se pretende demostrar que la trilogía de Radwa Ashur es un correlato de la historia palestina, y que se basa en el sujeto subalterno. Por ello, en todas las fases del memoricidio morisco percibimos el eco del memoricidio palestino. Ese memoricidio supone también un etnocidio, y una transculturización que, en Palestina, se sigue perpetrando. Mientras que, en el caso morisco, los historiadores reconocen unánimemente lo ocurrido, en el caso palestino no es así. Sin embargo, las evidencias son suficientes como para cambiar esta perspectiva histórica y autores como Ilan Pappé así lo atestiguan. La trilogía de Radwa Ashur es una trilogía política que denuncia el presente árabe sirviéndose del pasado como espejo de las injusticias.

Gary Fields. Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror; Gershon Shafir. A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict; Salim Tamari. The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine; Ilan Pappe. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories; Norman G. Finkelstein. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom; Michael Sfard. The Wall

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Ilan Pappe‘ (ed.), Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid

Ilan Pappe‘ (ed.), <i>Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid</i>

The Uses and Abuses of Collective Memory

The Uses and Abuses of Collective Memory Ilan Pappe Tamir Sorek, Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs. Stanford: Standford University Press, 2015. 328 pp. Thomas Philip Abowd, Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014. 288 pp. One of Michel Foucault's enduring scholarly legacies is his formulation of biopolitics as a potent force in our lives. What he had in mind, among other issues, was the pervasive and comprehensive power of states and industries to affect all aspects of life. Power, for Foucault, could insinuate itself into all microphysical social and physical contact and thus disciplined bodies and minds alike. Ever since his death in 1984, we are looking for ways of shaking off his gloomy observation that rings true and yet we wish to resist (Foucault 2003:242–243). Quite surprisingly, Foucault did not relate the concept of biopolitics, or biopower, to racism and colonialism as Robert Young observed already in 1995. For Foucault this was the domain of the modern nation state and its particular mode of domination (although he inspired one of the most important work on colonialism, Edward Said's Orientalism [1979]). However, what happens if the modern state is a settler colonial state? Are we allowed to apply this micro domination to such a case study? I think we can, as the two books under review—without committing them to this paradigm they have not chosen—indicate the usefulness of this possible [End Page 255] departure point for discussing the relationship between the settler colonial state of Israel and the native Palestinian population. The first book, Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs, by Tamir Sorek examines the commemorative culture of the Palestinian minority in Israel through formative events in their national lives (beginning, of course, with the 1948 catastrophe, the Nakbah). For Sorek, these commemorative spaces empower the minority within the Jewish state, but also indicate its willingness to dialogue with it. His approach is multidisciplinary and he provides us with a very thorough and comprehensive view on this culture in various manifestations since the inception of the Jewish State. In Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012, Thomas Philip Abowd roams the streets of Jerusalem with local friends and tries to share with them the harsh reality of colonization. His focus is the urban reality as a scene of colonialist erasure and counter commemoration by the colonized. The book moves in and out of history, covering some of the most known acts of urbicide that Israel committed in Jerusalem as well as less known instances of the colonization as a project of the de-Arabization of the city. He gives much space to the people themselves and conveys not just their thoughts, but their emotions and aspirations as much as he can. There are still today quite a few students of Israel and Palestine who find it hard to append the adjectives colonial, or settler colonial, to the Jewish State. However, recent scholarship is quite adamant that this is the appropriate paradigm for analyzing the past and the present of Israel and Palestine.1 This paradigm was applied by scholars to review the events of 1948; the Judaization policies in the south of Israel; the economic policies of Israel in the occupied West Bank and the industrial relationship during the Mandatory period, to mention but few of the major works in this area of inquiry (Lloyd 2012, Nasara 2012, Hever 2012, Mansour 2012). Major works in the field are those by Patrick Wolfe (2006), Lorezno Veracini (2006), and Gaby Piterberg (2008). The modern settler state of Israel represents a rare combination in our time of a nation-state still practicing settler colonialism (and by this, I do not mean just in the occupied West Bank but rather all over Israel). Zionism was not the only settler colonial movement and Israel was not the only settler colonial state. However, most of the nation-states, which were born out of settler colonial projects, defeated, and nearly annihilated, the [End Page 256] native population. The nation-state of Israel is...

Book Review: The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappe

This book review examines The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappe. As a “new historian” Pappe challenges traditional versions of Israeli history. He illustrates Israel’s creation as a colonial conquest rather than the prevailing national liberation movement. In particular, he examines the role that Zionism has played in shaping dominant political ideology in Israel. Pappe critically evaluates the evolution of Zionism narratives from classical, post-Zionism to neo-Zionism. He successfully illustrates the importance Zionism has played throughout the genesis of Israel by highlighting examples such as the 1947 UN partition resolution, the Holocaust, it’s role in furthering cultural tensions between Israelis and Arabs inhabitants, and presence in the media.

Palestine, Israel and the one-state solution: an interview with Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at Exeter University, and the Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. He obtained his BA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979, and his D...

“PRE-Postmodern”

For some years now, an opposition has been drawn, not only among Israeli academics but among politicians and journalists as well, between Jewish nationalist or Zionist thought and the kind of thinking that is called “postmodern.” The argument is that a Zionist cannot be a postmodernist and vice versa, the two being incompatible. It appears that this opposition originated with an identification made between “post-Zionist” historical revisionism (of the kind associated with Ilan Pappe, Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, Simha Flapan, and Tom Segev) and postmodernist methods, assumptions, and claims. In some cases, the identification was made by the “new historians” themselves. While there is considerable bad blood between post-Zionist scholars and those, inside and outside the academy, who defend one or another version of the Zionist narrative, it needs to be demonstrated that postmodernism has nothing to do with their adversarial relations. The effort of this article is to show that, even before postmodernism was heard of, nationalist thinkers such as Rabbi A. I. H. Kook (1865 – 1935), Rabbi M. A. Amiel (1883 – 1946), Rabbi Abraham Hazan (1920 – 2003), and Professor André Neher (1914 – 1988) mounted Zionist arguments of a sort that we now regard as poststructuralist or postmodern.

The forgotten Palestinians: a history of the Palestinians in Israel

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten. In this book, historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.

The rise and fall of a Palestinian dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700-1948

In this deeply researched political biography, Ilan Pappe traces the rise of the Husayni family of Jerusalem, who dominated Palestinian history from the early 1700s until the second half of the twentieth century. Viewing this sweeping saga through the prism of one family, the book sheds new light on crucial events - the invasion of Palestine by Napoleon, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, World War I, western colonialism, and the advent of Zionism - and provides an unforgettable picture of the Palestinian tragedy in its entirety. The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty is the history of Palestinian politics before national movements and political parties: at the height of the Husaynis' influence, positions in Jerusalem and Palestine could only be obtained through the family's power base. In telling the story of one family, the book highlights the continuity between periods customarily divided into pre-modern and modern, pre-Zionist and Zionist, illuminating history as it was actually lived.

Across the wall: narratives of Israeli-Palestinian history

Across the Wall arose from a unique collaboration between scholars from Israel and the Palestinian territories, seeking to arrive at a shared framework for studying the history of this troubled land. Ilan Pappe and Jamil Hilal, among the top academics in Israel and Palestine respectively, brought historians from both sides of the wall together for dialogue on history, identity, and the meaning of the conflict. In the volume, they argue persuasively for the concept of a 'bridging narrative', a historiographical discourse which can accommodate seemingly incompatible national meta-narratives. Proceeding from this innovative theoretical framework, Across the Wall then goes on to offer critical examinations of some of the most contested issues in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the 1948 'Nakba', the 1967 war, the occupation, and the formation of the PLO. The result is a radical new take on the history of Israel/Palestine which transcends the biases inherent in both countries' national narratives and points towards a new model for the historiography of conflicts.

Out of (Academic) Focus: On Ilan Pappe, &lt;em&gt;Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel&lt;/em&gt;

Out of (Academic) Focus: On Ilan Pappe, &lt;em&gt;Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel&lt;/em&gt;

La historia para la convivencia, desde la dominación historiográfica hacia la narración-puente, el caso de Palestina/Israel

In this summary we propose to underline the most fundamental and interesting aspects of our research, wich represents also the base for our future work. Precisely we are going to describe some core ideas we have been using as intelectual and cientific compass in our project: the transformation of history from a tool of domination to a instrument of coexistence, making particular reference in the concept of “bridge-narration” forged by the historians Jamil Hillal and Ilan Pappe.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Book Review| December 01 2009 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ilan Pappe Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2006 320 pp., $27.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paper) Laila Parsons Laila Parsons Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 585–586. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2009-042 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Laila Parsons; The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 December 2009; 29 (3): 585–586. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2009-042 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Duke University Press2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Zionism and the Palestinians

In discussions of the Arab–Israeli conflict, few claims have resonated more widely, or among a more diverse set of observers, than the Zionist movement's alleged non-recognition of the Palestinian ...

Ilan Pappe, a history of modern Palestine: one land, two peoples

Ilan Pappe, a history of modern Palestine: one land, two peoples

A Worthless Flock with No Shepherd: Bechor Shalom Shitrit's Representation-based Approach to Political Crisis Resolution

A Worthless Flock with No Shepherd: Bechor Shalom Shitrit's Representation-based Approach to Political Crisis Resolution

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Reviews in Religion & TheologyVolume 12, Issue 4 p. 605-618 SHORT NOTICES First published: 27 July 2005 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9418.2005.00266.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Book reviewed: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM, John J. Collins, Fortress Press, 2004, (0-8006-2991-4), pp. ix + 6 13, Pb $49.00 Reviewed by Deryn Guest University of Birmingham A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, Ilan Pappe, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0-521-55632-5), pp. xxi + 333, Pb £15.99 Reviewed by Vaughan S Roberts Warwick Job's God, Ellen van Wolde (ed.), Concilium 2004/4, SCM Press 2004 (0-334-03080-3), pp. 141, Pb £9.95 Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Die Rezeption des Propheten Ezechiel in der Offenbarung des Johannes, B. Kowalski, Stuttgarter Biblische Beiträge 32, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk 2004 (3-460-00521-1), pp. 529, c40.90 Reviewed by Steve Moyise University College Chichester Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, Judith M. Lieu, Oxford University Press 2004 (0-19-926289-6), pp. x + 370, Hb £55 Reviewed by Anthony Bash University of Durham Exploring New Testament Greek, Peter Kevern and Paula Gooder, SCM-Canterbury Press, LTD 2004, London, 0-334-029422, pp. 236, £10.99 Reviewed by Doreen McFarlane Hartford Seminary Communio Sanctorum: The Church as the Communion of Saints. Bilateral Working Group of the German National Bishops’ Conference and the Church Leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. Translated by Mark W. Jeske, Michael Root, and Daniel R. Smith. Edited by Michael Root. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004. 0-8146-2566-5 (pb.) xviii + 91. $14.95. Reviewed by David M. Whitford Claflin University Unwelcome Good News: Providence in Human Life, Andrew P. Porter, Wipf & Stock Publishers 2004 (ISBN 1-59244-938-7), pp. viii + 149, pb $19.00 Reviewed by Sarah K. Pinnock Trinity University, Town Illuminating Luke: The Infancy Narrative in Italian Renaissance Painting, Heidi J. Hornik and Mikael C. Parsons, Trinity Press International 2004, A Continuum Imprint (1-56338-405-1), pp. ix + 164, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by John Armson Herefordshire Theology of Physics, Dr. George Richter, Richter – et al. 2004, (0-9746720-0-9), pp. 184. Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy Volume12, Issue4September 2005Pages 605-618 RelatedInformation