Time is Running Out

Dr. Ilan Pappe, an Oxford-educated Israeli revisionist historian, is a senior lecture in the Department of Political Science at Haifa University, where he began teaching in 1984. Pappe also is president of the Emile Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies. His provocative recent book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: One World, 2007), documents the systematic transfer of the Palestinian population by Israel’s early leaders, a policy he asserts continues today. Pappe will join the faculty of Sussex University in Fall 2007, after repeated death threats by Israelis for his outspoken views. He supports the use of BDS, including a cultural boycott of the Israeli academy, arguing that Israeli will not give up its apartheid-like policies without international pressure. He calls BDS, “the best means to send a message to the Israeli state” for the end of the Israel’s Occupation of the Palestinian territories. Pappe’s address was delivered at the 2nd Bil’in International Nonviolence Conference, 18 April 2007.