The global bestseller has come to tell us the truth about the Nakba:

From 1947 to 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and approximately one million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes under the threat of guns. A crime denied for decades, with "ethnic cleansing" being the only term that can describe it. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left voluntarily or indefinitely due to the war, Ilan Pappe provides striking evidence from the classified archives of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prove that the cause was a deceitful, organized plan.

"Exact details were recorded regarding the geographical location of each village, the access roads, the quality of the land, the water sources, the main sources of income, its socio-political composition, its religious beliefs, the names of the mukhtars, its relationship with other villages, the age of each man, and much more."

From its very founding, Israel's ideology, Zionism, mandated the violent removal of the indigenous people and the subsequent erasure of their existence from history and memory. Nearly 80 years later, the colonial plan remains active, with its consequences now visible worldwide...