Ten Myths About Israel

Ilan Pappe 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, Director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and The Idea of Israel-which was shortlisted for the JQ Wingate History Prize as well as two co-authored projects with Noam Chomsky: On Palestine and Gaza in Crisis.

Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.

• Map2024 Preface: Decontextualizing and Dehistoricizing GazaPrefacePART I. FALLACIES OF THE PAST1. Palestine Was an Empty Land2. The Jews Were a People Without a Land3. Zionism Is Judaism4. Zionism Is Not Colonialism5. The Palestinians Voluntarily Left Their Homeland in 19486. The June 1967 War Was a War of "No Choice"PART II. FALLACIES OF THE PRESENT7. Israel Is the Only Democracy in the Middle East8. The Oslo Mythologies9. The Gaza MythologiesPART III. LOOKING AHEAD10. The Two-State Solution Is the Only Way ForwardConclusion: The Settler Colonial State of Israel in the Twenty-First CenturyTimelineNotesIndex