Out of the frame
Subtitle: the struggle for academic freedom in Israel
By: Ilan Pappe
Publisher: Pluto Press; Distributed inthe United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780745327259; 9780745327266
Subjects: Historiography; Zionism; Academic freedom; Arab-Israeli conflict; History
Description: "Even before he wrote his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, historian Ilan Pappe was a controversial figure in Israel. In Out of the Frame, he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community influenced by the utopian visions of Theodor Herzl, Pappe was barely aware of the Nakbah in his high school years. Here he traces his journey of discovery from the whispers of Palestinian classmates to his realisation that the 'enemy's' narrative of the events of 1948 was correct. After completing his thesis at Oxford University based on recently declassified documents in the early 1980s, he returned to Palestine determined to protect the memory of the Nakbah and struggle for the rectification of its evils. For the first time he gives the details of the formidable opposition he faced in Israel, including death threats fed by the media, denunciations by the Knesset and calls for him to be sacked from his post at Haifa university."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.