Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe
Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe
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Ten Myths About Israel

Author: Ilan Pappe

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2024


Synopsis

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from "the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" (New Statesman)

The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.

The "ten myths"—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, and accepted without question by the world's governments—reinforce the regional status quo and include: Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration; the Jews were a people without a land; there is no difference between Zionism and Judaism; Zionism is not a colonial project of occupation; the Palestinians left their Homeland voluntarily in 1948; the June 1967 War was a war of 'No Choice'; Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East; the Oslo Mythologies; the Gaza Mythologies; and the Two-State Solution.

For students, activists, and anyone interested in better understanding the news, Ten Myths About Israel is another groundbreaking study of the Israel-Palestine conflict from the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

About Ilan Pappe

Ilan Pappe is director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the bestselling author of over a dozen books, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and The Israel/Palestine Question.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on July 12, 2018

This is a short book but dense, like a black hole from which no light can escape. These ten myths have been, according to Ilan Pappe, promoted and repeated so often they have been accepted as facts, and he intends to disprove each one of them. The ten myths are divided into FALLACIES OF THE PAST (6......more

Goodreads review by Vishal on October 31, 2017

During my undergraduate studies in law, I became intensely interested in the creation of, and the position of, Israel as a matter of public international law. Subsequently, I studied for my postgraduate studies in criminal law, where again, it was the nation of Israel that caught my eye. This time,......more

Goodreads review by Randall on November 29, 2023

For Israel, it’s all about casting “doubt on the Palestinian’s moral right to the land.” The estimate of percentage of Jews in Israel prior to the rise of Zionism is “2 to 5 percent”. Without the sudden increase in Zionism, “Palestine would probably have gone the same way as Lebanon, Jordan, or Syri......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 08, 2023

First of all, free Palestine, and end settler colonialism. My rating of this book is not reflective of my view on the topic, but simply on the book itself.  An ambitious book that seeks, in under 200 pages, to dispel ten myths about Israel. In doing this it argues strongly and convincingly against th......more