Illan Pappe

Israeli historian Illan Pappe agreed: “Colonised people have the right to struggle for their liberation … and the successful ending to such a struggle lies in the creation of a democratic state that includes all of its inhabitants”. Over the past decade, the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign has achieved ...

US Vice President Mike Pence announced this week in a landmark speech in front of Israeli lawmakers that Washington will be moving its Israeli embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of next year. Illan Pappe, a specialist on the Israel-Palestine conflict, has told Sputnik what impact the decision ...

Speakers at the event included acclaimed academics and journalists such as Illan Pappe, professor for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, and professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, Tariq Ramadan. For David Miller, a professor of sociology at the University of Bath, the ...

He told the Guardian: “Despite the threat from DCLG, we will make further efforts to hold Palestine Expo and will seek a judicial review of this unfair and unjust decision.” Speakers booked for Palestinian Expo include journalist John Pilger, anti-Zionist academic Illan Pappe and BDS activist Ben White.

The 15th of May is usually a trigger for a journey back in time. And for an unfathomable reason each such journey conjures up a different aspect of the Nakba. This year, more than anything else, I am preoccupied with the continued apathy and indifference of the Western political elite and media to the plight ...

As Israel continues its massive military aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has already cost the lives of more than 2,000 Palestinians, the international condemnation of the atrocities committed by the Tel Aviv regime and its cruel massacre of the unarmed citizens of the besieged Gaza grows steadily.

People in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine feel disappointed at the lack of any significant international reaction to the carnage and destruction the Israeli assault has so far left behind it in the Strip. The inability, or unwillingness, to act seems to be first and foremost an acceptance of the Israeli narrative and ...

The California State University (CSU) system has sent a letter in response to a Zionist group, rejecting their claim that Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and a frequent contributor to The Electronic Intifada, should not receive CSU sponsorship during his upcoming campus tour because of his criticism of Israeli ...