A unique opportunity to hear renowned Israeli historian Dr Ilan Pappe speak about his recent book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is offered on March 29.

Pappe, whose parents fled Nazi Germany, received his doctorate at Oxford University and was senior lecturer of political science at Haifa University in Israel, academic director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva, and chair of the Emil Tourma Institute. 

He is currently chair of the Department of History at the University of Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.

 The controversial historian believes the only way to force Israel to end its occupation of Palestine, is to boycott his country. So last summer, his family packed their belongings and moved to Britain.

He has said he feels like public enemy number one and receives death threats by phone almost every day.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which was published in 2006, is about the two countries’ violent history.

In the words of Richard Falk, professor of international law and practice at Princeton University,  “Pappe has written an extraordinary book that is of profound relevance to the past, present, and future of Israel/Palestine relations.” 

And in the words of John Pilger, the award winning documentary producer, “Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.”   

“This is an extraordinary book — a dazzling feat of scholarly synthesis and Biblical moral clarity and humaneness,” commented Walid Khalidi, former senior research fellow at Harvard University.

This event is sponsored by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation. For more information, visit: www.necef.org.