{"id":33750,"date":"2024-05-17T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33750"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T19:28:13","slug":"dark-times-israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-detained-interrogated-by-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/dark-times-israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-detained-interrogated-by-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dark Times’: Israeli Historian Ilan Papp\u00e9 Detained, Interrogated by FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ilan Papp\u00e9 speaks at a Lannan Foundation event in January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Lannan Foundation\/YouTube\/screen grab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>“The good news is\u2014actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby or Israel itself smell of sheer panic and desperation,” the renowned author said.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 16, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what one observer called “a whole new level of insanity and paranoia,” renowned Israeli historian and professor Ilan Papp\u00e9\u2014a staunch critic of Zionism\u2014was detained and interrogated this week by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents as he entered the United States at Detroit’s airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Wednesday Facebook post<\/a>, Papp\u00e9 said that he was questioned by FBI agents for two hours after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two-men team were not abusive or rude, I should say, but their questions were really out of the world! Am I a Hamas supporter? Do I regard the Israeli actions in Gaza<\/a> a genocide? What is the solution to the “conflict” (seriously this what they asked!) Who are my Arab and Muslim friends in America… What kind of relationship [do] I have with them?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“They had [a] long phone conversation with someone, the Israelis?” he added, “and after copying everything on my phone allowed me to enter.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I know many of you have fared far worse,” Papp\u00e9 wrote, referring to Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian plastic surgeon and rector of Glasgow University in Scotland who last month was denied<\/a> entry to Germany\u2014and by extension all 29 Schengen Area<\/a> nations\u2014before the ban was overturned<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The good news is\u2014actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby or Israel<\/a> itself smell of sheer panic and desperation in reaction to Israel’s becoming very soon a pariah state, with all the implications of such a status,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, German police arrest Iris Hefetz, our Israeli-Jewish comrade, for opposing genocide in Berlin. Now, Ilan Pappe (@pappe54<\/a>), the renowned Israeli-Jewish historian, is detained in Detroit by the FBI for questioning over his campaigning against Israel's genocide. Dark times! pic.twitter.com\/4mpedRinXo<\/a><\/p>— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) May 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>