Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and political scientist known for his work on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and as a leading figure among the New Historians. His books include The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which argues that the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians was a deliberate campaign, and A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. He also wrote The Biggest Prison on Earth, a study of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza after 1967, and a Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. He is a professor at the University of Exeter.