#BISA2026 public lecture recording: Professor Ilan Pappe

The #BISA2026 conference began with a public lecture delivered by Professor Ilan Pappe. His lecture was titled 'Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order', and sought to provide an explanation as to why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 have unsettled the international order.

You can watch the video below.

Professor Ilan Pappe, is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter and a senior fellow at the University of Exeter's Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also the chair of the board of the charity The Nakba Memorial Foundation.

Ilan Pappe was born in Haifa in 1954. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984. From 1984 to 2006, Pappe taught at the University of Haifa and moved to the UK in 2007 to the University of Exeter.

Pappe has written 26 books to date, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) and On Palestine (jointly with Noam Chomsky in 2010). His most recent books are The Ten Myths of Israel (2018), The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation (2019), Our Vision for Liberation (with Ramzy Baroud 2022) and Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic (2024). His latest book is Israel on the Brink (2025).

The public lecture was co-sponsored by the University of Brighton's Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE).