World-renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe speaks in Trinity on "The Peace Charade in Palestine"

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Monday November 21, 2005 16:28 by Hugh Harkin - One World Society hugeharkin at yahoo dot com

One World presents: bonus Palestine Awareness event!
Dr Ilan Pappe, Professor of Politics at Haifa University, Israel
Speaking on:
“The Peace Charade in Palestine”
Thursday 24th at 7.30pm
Walton theatre (2039), Arts Block

Known internationally as “Israel’s Chomsky”, Dr Ilan Pappe is a world-renowned historian who has written or edited six books on Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is one of Israel’s "new historians", a group of historians who are so-called because their writings, based on material released only in the last twenty years by the British and Israeli archives, have helped to undermine myths about the foundation and early years of the Israeli state, myths that were promoted by an earlier generation of Israeli historians who were more concerned about building up the self-image of the new state than in historical accuracy. Ilan Pappe is one of the world’s most outspoken critics of Israel and its policies today. Astonishingly, he comes to Ireland to plead with us to boycott the country of his birth, Israel.