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 yes 1954 one of israel 's `` new historians '' united kingdom ilan pappe.jpg university of exeter ba -lrb- 1978 -rrb- , phd -lrb- 1984 -rrb- ilan pappé historian , political activist hebrew university of jerusalem university of oxford
ilan pappé

ilan pappé -lrb- ; born 1954 -rrb- is an israeli historian and socialist activist .
he is a professor with the college of social sciences and international studies at the university of exeter in the united kingdom , director of the university 's european centre for palestine studies , and co-director of the exeter centre for ethno-political studies .
pappé was born in haifa , israel .
prior to coming to the uk , he was a senior lecturer in political science at the university of haifa -lrb- 1984 -- 2007 -rrb- and chair of the emil touma institute for palestinian and israeli studies in haifa -lrb- 2000 -- 2008 -rrb- .
he is the author of `` the ethnic cleansing of palestine '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- , `` the modern middle east '' -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , `` a history of modern palestine : one land , two peoples '' -lrb- 2003 -rrb- , and `` britain and the arab-israeli conflict '' -lrb- 1988 -rrb- .
he was also a leading member of hadash , and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996 and 1999 knesset elections .
pappé is one of israel 's new historians who , since the release of pertinent british and israeli government documents in the early 1980s , have been rewriting the history of israel 's creation in 1948 , and the corresponding expulsion or flight of 700,000 palestinians in the same year .
he has written that the expulsions were not decided on an `` ad hoc '' basis , as other historians have argued , but constituted the ethnic cleansing of palestine , in accordance with plan dalet , drawn up in 1947 by israel 's future leaders .
he blames the creation of israel for the lack of peace in the middle east , arguing that zionism is more dangerous than islamic militancy , and has called for an international boycott of israeli academics .
pappé supports the one-state solution , which envisages a binational state for palestinians and israelis .
his work has been both supported and criticized by other historians .
before he left israel in 2008 , he had been condemned in the knesset , israel 's parliament ; a minister of education had called for him to be sacked ; his photograph had appeared in a newspaper at the centre of a target ; and he had received several death threats .
