Ilan Pappe is is the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on the politics of the Middle East, and is well known for his revisionist interpretation of Israeli history and as a critic of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. In 2017, he received the lifetime achievement award at the Palestine Book Awards. He is the author of The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951 (1992/4) and The Modern Middle East (2005) and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006).