Lecture by Stephan Grigat, Professor of Theories and Criticism of Anti-Semitism at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia and Director of the Center for Anti-Semitism and Racism Studies (CARS) in Aachen
"1948: The first Arab-Israeli war" by Benny Morris
In his monograph "1948: The First Arab-Israeli War", Benny Morris sheds light on the background and events that led to the end of the British Mandate in Palestine, the fragmentation of Arab-Palestinian society, and ultimately, the birth of the State of Israel. The focus is on the immediate reaction to the state's founding: The pan-Arab war of aggression. Morris' meticulous analysis of the Israeli and international archives, accessible since the 1980s, provides a clear, documentary view of the often mythologized history of the 1948 war and its political and military actors. This book, published for the first time in German, thus provides much-needed historical clarification to counter the debates about Israel and Palestine, Zionism, and expulsion, which are so full of resentment and forgetfulness of history.