Deset mýtů o Izraeli – Pappé Ilan (2022)

Ilan Pappé is one of the most prominent and, in the eyes of many, the most controversial figures of the "dissident" group of Israeli historians, who since the 1980s have been critically reassessing the established official narrative of Israeli history based on newly accessible, declassified archival documents, particularly the period associated with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has not reached a peaceful resolution even after decades. Within the loose grouping of "new historians," Pappé is among the most radical. For his views, he has faced sharp attacks, even death threats, in his home country, and when he was essentially expelled from the University of Haifa in 2007, he decided to move to Great Britain, where he still works at the University of Exeter. In his book Ten Myths About Israel, published on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and the fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of the remaining Palestinian territories, Pappé debunks the fundamental myths upon which the "state doctrine" and the official narrative of the State of Israel are based. He challenges, for example, the traditional notion that Palestine was almost a deserted, backward desert landscape before the arrival of the first Zionists, debunking the myth of voluntary...