Ilan Pappe | What’s Next for Israel & Palestine
Sun 27 Apr 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm



The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel
Palestine conflict didn’t start on 7 October. It didn’t start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West
Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers
arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine.
Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel Palestine, Palestinian resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.
In conversation with Mezna Qato
Venue: Palmerston Room
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of over a dozen books, including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. In 2017, he received the Middle East Monitor’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Palestine Book Awards.
Chair Biography
Mezna Qato is a historian of Palestine and Palestinians, and director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, Newnham College. She is completing a social history of Palestinian postwar regeneration.