Israeli scholar Ilan Pappé - our interview

France's tense political climate mirrors Israel's, says scholar Ilan Pappé - our interview:

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has seen his book 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' reissued in France after a French publisher pulled it from shelves.

He tells RFI that it fits with a broader political climate that limits freedom of expression, both across Europe and in Israel...

Read from this link: https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20240628-france-s-tense-political-climate-mirrors-israel-s-says-scholar-ilan-papp%C3%A9

 

By: Melissa Chemam | Jan van der Made 

RFI: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine has been republished in French by La Fabrique after its original publisher, Fayard, cancelled a reprint and took it out of bookshops. What was your reaction?

Ilan Pappé: I was surprised to hear that Fayard decided to stop reprinting and distributing the book at the moment that it became popular again. This had to do with the change of ownership at Fayard. To my mind it was a clear violation of freedom of expression.

They used some technical [excuses]. I was disappointed that in France you can suppress freedom of speech by not distributing or publishing books that are in demand. 

But it goes beyond my case, it has to do with the era we live in where ideologies and political positions are restricting our freedom of expression – especially when it concerns Palestine.

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Read the whole interview and listen to an extract from this link: https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20240628-france-s-tense-political-climate-mirrors-israel-s-says-scholar-ilan-papp%C3%A9