Illan Pappe: I’m not a traitor say I! And while you’re at it Illan, cry me a river of tears as well. If not for the long literary list of highly questionable, dubious “historical works” that Pappe has authored over the years, he most likely wouldn’t have been denied a professorship at Haifa University. But he did manage to land one in Britain, so that must tell you something about the level of standards at University of Exeter.
For those of you not familiar with Illan Pappe, is suffices to say that he is the Ward Churchill of the Israeli academy, or at least one of those who vie for the title of “pseudo professor of the year“. Pappé is the exact opposite of a real professor like Efraim Karsh, director of Middle Eastern studies at King’s College at the University of London.
The scholarship of Illan Pappé, Avi Shlaim and Benny Morris has been thoroughly exposed by Professor Karsh and properly debunked. Even one of the “New Historians” (B.Morris) has come full circle to the views offered by Karsh in his own scholarship of Israeli history. Morris, in an article in The New Republic where he disparaged a fellow revisionist, he (Mooris) ends up repeating, almost verbatim, Karsh’s charges against himself on the transfer issue (notably, that aliya, not transfer, was the Zionist solution to the “Arab question).
