Ilan Pappé talks to Eugene Rogan

One of the best-known historians of the Middle East Professor Ilan Pappé explains the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and shows how pro-Israel lobbying groups have influenced policy in Britain and the US.

Pappé charts the Israel-Palestine conflict back to 1882 when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. He looks at the founding fathers of Zionism, international policy towards Israel and Palestine, Palestinian resistance to occupation and changes taking place in Israel. Pappé also explains how pro-Israel lobbyists changed the map of the Middle East, pushed for unprecedented military aid, and argued for recognition of unlawfully occupied territories and erasure of Palestinian rights.

Pappé 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 author of more than a dozen books including his latest works, Lobbying for Zionism on both Sides of the Atlantic and A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Here he talks to Professor Eugene Rogan, professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford and author of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920.