{"product_id":"the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-by-ilan-pappe","title":"'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' by Ilan Pappe","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"406\"\u003eThis is one of the central historical interventions in contemporary writing on Israel–Palestine.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"406\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"206\"\u003eThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé draws on declassified archival material to argue that the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1947–48 was not an accident of war, but a planned and systematic campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"761\"\u003ePappé focuses on Plan Dalet and the coordinated destruction of villages, expulsions of civilians, and enforcement of demographic transformation during the establishment of the Israeli state. The book is deliberately unsentimental and documentary in tone — closer to an indictment than a narrative — and has become both widely cited and deeply contested.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"763\" data-end=\"999\"\u003eWhether read as history, political argument, or archival reckoning, this is a book that insists on material evidence over myth, and record over abstraction. It remains controversial, because it is accurate, and only controversial to the people who choose to ignore the genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43427695165523,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/51a78bd7-a5ae-4643-a10b-9014ad3c6af2.jpg?v=1768450544","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-by-ilan-pappe","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}