A recorded lecture given on the evening of 10th November 2011 by Dr. Ilan Pappe’ on the state of research on Palestine.  The lecture was organised by the Palestine Studies Group at the University of Exeter (UK).  Dr Pappe maps out the state of research on Palestine.  He encourages scholars to become both researchers and activists in one, striving for a better world. 

2011 Nov 10 Pappe Audio Pal Researc Pt 1

2011 Nov 10 Pappe Pal Research Audio Pt 2

Dr. Ilan Pappe speaks at an event hosted by the University of Exeter's Kurdish Society commemorating the Anfal Campaign and Halabja Massacre of Kurds living in northern Iraq in 1988 by Saddam Hussein's Baath Regime.  While stressing the importance of remembering this tragedy, Dr. Pappe equally implores academics and civil society around the world to recognise that such tragedies (massacres, genocides and ethnic cleansing) are not unique, but unfortunately a universal problem suffered and propagated by most societies around the world either as victim or victimiser, or sometimes both.  In as much he establishes a link of shared victimhood between Palestinians and Kurds in the Middle East, victims of complex forces of international global interests and financial or military interests based in the West.  Ilan Pappe proposes that we should all become activists working against such crimes learn from these universally shared tragedies in order to prevent such tragedies taking place again.  

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