The anti-Israel Israeli historian Ilan Pappé appears not to have read any of the accounts of what went on from August 23 to August 29, 1929. Here is an account of the attack in Safed, different only in degree, but not in kind, from what took place elsewhere: “At about 5:15 pm, on the 29th […]

Elder of Ziyon has information on Ilan Pappé’s recent conclusion that the 1929 pogrom conducted by Arabs in many parts of Mandatory Palestine was in fact a response to violence that was started by Jews: “Ilan Pappé makes up a new lie to justify Arab massacres of Jews as far back as 1929,” Elder of […]

The Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has made himself famous, or rather infamous, as the Palestinians’ favorite Israeli, for his endless denunciations of Zionists and Zionism in his work as an historian. His entire quasi-scholarly oeuvre is devoted to the supposed atrocities planned or committed by the Jewish state. He is now a professor with the […]