Ten Myths About Israel I Ilan Pappé in conversation with Max Rodenbeck

Ilan Pappé in conversation with Max Rodenbeck
Presented by Amar Ujala

Ilan Pappé is considered one of Israel’s most groundbreaking, outspoken and incisive historians and thinkers. His book Ten Myths About Israel examines contested ideas that comprise the discourse of the contemporary state of Israel, the oppression of the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation, and explains why the two-state solution is no longer viable. It was published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation. Pappé is also the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Idea of Israel, and two projects with Noam Chomsky, On Palestine and Gaza in Crisis. In conversation with journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief for The Economist magazine, Max Rodenbeck, Pappé discusses his work, and the truth behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, worsening each day.

Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and Director of The European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. Pappé has written twenty books so far, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and On Palestine (with Noam Chomsky). His latest book is The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories.

Max Rodenbeck is a journalist, critic and writer on global affairs. Before his current post as South Asia bureau chief for The Economist, based in Delhi, he spent 30 years in the Middle East covering wars, revolutions and hubbly bubblies from Iran to Morocco.