Pappe published the book 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' in 2006.
Recent news shows that the French publisher that was printing it ceased printing the book despite a surge in sales.
A recent statement from Ilan Pappe:
I think what we are seeing now, what unfolds in front of our eyes, is a genocidal situation, by which people are targeted, whether they are children, babies, in hospital or in schools. And this is a massive operation of killing, of ethnic cleansing, of depopulation. The pretext for that kind of savagery is revenge for what the Hamas did on the 7th of October, but I think the real intention here is not just revenge but trying to exploit what happened on the 7th of October to create new realities in historical Palestine. You called it a new Nakba. I think that this is — the Nakba has never really ended for the Palestinians, so it’s a new horrific chapter in the ongoing Nakba that the Palestinians are suffering here. So, this is a really horrific situation that can only be stopped from the outside, because there is no motivation inside Israel to stop the operations, nor to care more about the lives of innocent people, despite what the Israeli army claims to do in the field itself.
Over at Democracy Now.
It doesn't matter what they do or who they abduct. Israel is committing genocide. We all know it. The way our government is handling this and involved in it is unacceptable.