Prof Ilan Pappe on - Gaza at the Epicentre of our World

What is the significance of the Gaza genocide to the struggles against injustice globally and locally? Why does the reality unfolding the last two years in Palestine be a pivotal moment in the struggle to build intersectional global civil society and challenge the essence of politics as we know it today? What are the risks if we allow Palestine to be destroyed and expunged from history, memory and the future?

Professor Ilan Pappe is the director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the university of Exeter and a senior fellow at the University of Exeter's Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also the chair of the board of the charity The Nakba Memorial Foundation. Born in Haifa in 1954, he received his D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. From 1984 to 2006, he taught at the University of Haifa and moved to the UK in 2007. He has written 22 books, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) and On Palestine (jointly with Noam Chomsky in 2010). His most recent books are The Ten Myths of Israel (2018), The Biggest Pr*son on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation (2019), A Historical Dictionary of Palestine (with Johnny Mansour 2021), Our Vision for Liberation (with Ramzy Baroud 2022), Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024), A Very Short History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2024), and his latest book, Israel on the Brink (2025).

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