“New Historians”
“New Historians” are a group of Israeli historians
who have declared their goal to be reexamining the history
of Israel and Zionism. Leading scholars in this school include
Benny Morris, Ilan Pappé, and Avi Shlaim. They base
their research on Israeli government documents that have
become public since the late 1980s.
Although the New Historians'
publications include a variety of views,
they may be generalized to present the Zionist movement as aimed in such a way that Jewish
statehood could only come combined with
the displacement of at least some Palestinian
Arabs. Therefore, according to the New Historians,
Israel has its own share of responsibility
for the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian
plight. In particular they claim that at
least a part of the Palestinan
refugees were driven away from their
homes, rather than fled out of their own
decision. Some of the methods of their
historical work have come under criticism;
the movement is highly controversial, both
among Israeli and Western scholars.
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