26/08/2024

Palestinian history: interview with historian Ilan Pappé

 

My most important interview of the summer:


For Ilan Pappé, Gaza genocide brings
more urgency to studying
the history and crimes of Zionism


Book Club: Professor & author Ilan Pappé delves into Israel's war on Gaza while discussing the re-publishing of his 2006 book and the release of his latest book 





Melissa Chemam 

24 July, 2024



Though his father was a resistant during the Second World War and his maternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee in London working for la France Libre, led by Charles de Gaulle, he himself is a supporter of far-right ideas.

Fayard “used some technicalities to justify the end of the contract,” Pappé adds.

“I was disappointed to see that, in France, freedom of speech could be suppressed this way. 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.”


Read on from here:


For Ilan Pappé, Gaza genocide brings
more urgency to studying the history
and crimes of Zionism






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