Ilan Pappe
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Chris Arnot interviews the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe who has defended the Palestinians | Education | The Guardian
For an academic to describe himself as "feeling for a while like public enemy No 1" suggests either an inflated ego or an incurable case of paranoia.
Opposing Apartheid: Palestine and the Experience of South Africa - with Ilan Pappe and Ronnie Kasrils
Israeli historian Professor Ilan Pappe and South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former government minister Ronnie Kasrils spoke on Wednesday 10 March 2010 in the Houses of Parliament on the subject of opposing apartheid.
Although they come from the left (Defence minister Barak from the Labour Party) and the right (Prime Minister Netanyahu from Likkud) of Israeli politics, their thinking on Gaza in general and on the flotilla in particular is informed by the same history and identical worldview. At one time, Ehud Barak was Benjamin Netanyahu's commanding officer in the Israeli equivalent of the SAS.