11/25 SF Labor TV On Labor, Zionism & Palestinians

Labor On The Job On
Friday November 25, 2005 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
On San Francisco Comcast Channel 29
Presents:

One On One
Labor, Zionism and Palestinians
An Interview with Israeli University Lecturer Ilan Pappe


Ilan Pappe is a university lecturer at the department of Political Science at Haifa University and is
a long time activist for human and labor rights for Palestinians. He was supportive of a labor boycott of by the UK Association of University Teachers of Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities
in Israel for their harassment of himself and a graduate student for exposing a hidden massacre by Israeli troops at the Arab village of Al Tantura.


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The distinguished Dr. Ilan Pappe is senior lecturer in the department of
Political Science at Haifa University and the Chair of the Emil Touma
Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa. He is also the Academic
Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva. He has
written extensively on the politics of the Middle East, and is
well-known for his revisionist interpretation of Israel's history and as a
critic of its policies towards the Palestinians.

Born in Haifa, Ilan Pappe concentrated on Middle Eastern studies in high
school and then served in intelligence in the Israeli army. He earned his
doctorate from Oxford University, where he studied international relations
and Middle Eastern studies. Pappe is one of the founders of the ''new
history'' in Israel, together with Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim, and is
considered the theoretician of this group, which re-examined the history
of the state's birth, relying on new documents discovered in the archives,
among other things.

In early 2002, Pappe was threatened with dismissal by Haifa University
because of his support for Teddy Katz, a Jewish graduate student at the
university whose dissertation had brought to public attention the massacre,
by Israeli forces in 1948, of a large portion of the population of the Arab
village of Al Tantura, on the coast south of Haifa. A petition in support of
Dr. Pappe, was signed by several thousand intellectuals from many countries
around the world, including many from within Israel. After the international
protest, the university withdrew the threatened dismissal proceedings.

''As a humanist my sympathy is with the victims. If I had written about
Jews in Europe, or African Americans under slavery or Jim Crow, I would be
accused of being pro-Jewish or pro-African. Since I am writing about modern
Palestine, I am accused of being pro-Palestinian. What amazes me is that
people who claim to be humanists that don't come to the same conclusions
as I do, people who don't conclude that Palestinians have been victims of
colonization and expulsion, people who don't have sympathy with them.''
--Ilan Pappe