[Imc-uk-features] Ilan Pappe, speaking on The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in UK: October 12-19th 2006

Thu Oct 12 07:33:34 PDT 2006

THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
ILAN PAPPE

³Ilan Pappe is Israel¹s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.²
- John Pilger

The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as ŒThe War of
Independence¹, but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the
Œcatastrophe¹. Alongside the creation of the State of Israel, the end of the
war led to one of the largest forced migrations in modern history.  Around a
million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were
massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed.
Though the truth about the mass expulsion has been systematically distorted
and suppressed, had it taken place in the twenty-first century it could only
have been called Œethnic cleansing¹.

In his new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, prominent Israeli
academic Ilan Pappe argues passionately that the denial of international
recognition for this tragedy, and the refusal to allow the Palestinians the
right to return to their homeland, excludes from the peace process the
essential foundation for a lasting peace  in the Middle East and beyond.

³Ilan Pappe has written an extraordinary book that is of profound relevance
to the past, present, and future  of Israel/Palestine relations.²  - Richard
Falk, Prof. of International Law and Practice, Princeton University

³Fresh insights into a world historic tragedy, related by a historian of
genius.² - George Galloway MP

³If there is to be real peace in Palestine/Israel, the moral vigour and
intellectual clarity of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine will have been a
major contributor to it.² - Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love

³Groundbreaking research into a well-kept Israeli secret. A classic of
historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New
Historians.²  Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima

³An instant classic. Finally we have the authoritative account of an
historic event, which continues to shape our world today, and drives the
conflict in the Middle East. Pappe is the only historian who could have told
it, and he has done so with supreme command of the facts, elegance, and
compassion. The publication of this book is a landmark event.²  Karma
Nabulsi, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University

ILAN PAPPE is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer of Political Science
at Haifa University. He is also Academic Director of the Research Institute
for Peace at  Givat Haviva, and Chair of the Emil Touma  Institute for
Palestinian Studies, Haifa. He is the author of a number of books, including
A History of Modern Palestine, The Modern Middle East and The
Israel/Palestine Question.

He will be speaking in a variety of locations throughout the UK in October.
Details of events in North America in November will be available shortly.

Thursday 12th October           7pm
Glasgow University
The Boyd Orr Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ

ILAN PAPPE University of Haifa, will be speaking about his new book, The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Free Event/ ALL WELCOME

Organised by Glasgow University Stop the War Coalition and the Palestinian
Society

Friday 13th October        7.30pm

Edinburgh International Radical Bookfair
Out of the Blue Drill Hall
Dalmeny Street
Leith

³The Middle Eastern Crises, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine²
Ilan Pappe in conversation with Aijaz Ahmad

Free Event/ ALL WELCOME

Monday 16th October        6.30pm

The London Review of Books in association with SOAS presents:

ILAN PAPPE in conversation with
Omar Al-Qattan, founder of Sindibad Films and director of Al-Qattan
Foundation

The Darwin Lecture Theatre
Darwin Building
UCL
Gower Street, WC1

Tickets: £5, £2 concessions, available on the door

Tuesday 17th October       7.30pm

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign presents:  ³Justice for Palestine  - Peace
in the Middle-East²

ILAN PAPPE University of Haifa, will be speaking about his new book, The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, The Rt. Rev Riah Abu El-Assal  will talk about
the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people

Dr Manuel Hassassian
Palestinian General Delegate to the UK

The Friends Meeting House,
Euston Road, London
 Free entry/Donations welcome

Wednesday 18th October          5.30pm

The Oxford Union in association with Blackwells

Ilan Pappe talking on The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Frewin Court
St Michael¹s Street
 Oxford
OX1 3JB

Open to all members of Oxford University

Thursday 19th October

10.30-12.30pm                       CHATHAM HOUSE
                                               Round-table discussion
                                               Paper by Ilan Pappe:
Paradaigm Shifts: A New Look at the Palestine Question

                                               Invitation Only

6.30pm                                   ³The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine:
from the Oslo accords to Olmert's convergence plan"

Chair: Prof. Benita Parry of the English department,
a member of the Jews for Justice for Palestinians.

Warwick University
Humanities building, room 0.51
Free Event/ ALL WELCOME

Please post this if you think it will be of interest to your members.

Thank You

Juliet 
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Juliet Mabey
Editorial Director
Oneworld Publications
185 Banbury Road
Oxford, OX2 7AR
England
Tel. 01865-310597
Fax 01865-310598
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