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Tom Segev (born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli
Israelis

Israelis are citizens of the modern state of Israel regardless of religious heritage or Ethnicity, including most numerously Jews, Muslims, Arab Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others....
 journalist and historian. He belongs to a group of Israeli revisionist historians called the "New Historians
New Historians

The New Historians are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional Israeli assumptions about Israeli history, including Israel's role in the Palestinian Exodus in 1948 and Arab willingness to discuss peace with Israel....
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v was born in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

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 in 1945. He studied history and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university.The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann....
 and earned a doctorate in history from Boston University
Boston University

Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
 in the 1970s. Segev is a columnist, and has published several books. In 2007, Segev was Helen Diller Family visiting professor at the Berkeley
Berkeley, California

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 campus of the University of California
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Tom Segev (born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli
Israelis

Israelis are citizens of the modern state of Israel regardless of religious heritage or Ethnicity, including most numerously Jews, Muslims, Arab Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others....
 journalist and historian. He belongs to a group of Israeli revisionist historians called the "New Historians
New Historians

The New Historians are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional Israeli assumptions about Israeli history, including Israel's role in the Palestinian Exodus in 1948 and Arab willingness to discuss peace with Israel....
".

Biography

Segev was born in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 in 1945. He studied history and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university.The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann....
 and earned a doctorate in history from Boston University
Boston University

Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
 in the 1970s. Segev is a columnist, and has published several books. In 2007, Segev was Helen Diller Family visiting professor at the Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
 campus of the University of California
University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
. Segev was also a visiting professor of history at Northeastern University where he taught a seminar on Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II?usually referred to as the Holocaust?did not occur in the manner or to the extent described by current scholarship....
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Main ideas

In the book, The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust, Segev claims that the Jews in Palestine during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 were more interested in their own state than in saving Jews in Europe. The book is highly critical of David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion

was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
, and created a strong reaction in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 when it was published.

In One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, Segev contends that violent conflict between Jewish and Arab nationalism was inevitable as the two groups could not co-exist given their contrary aims. Segev additionally argues that the British
United Kingdom

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 were pro-Zionist, and that British support for Zionism stemmed from a misguided—"and anti-Semitic—belief that Jews turned the wheels of history." Segev's works are often criticized by Israelis for being too pro-Palestinian and by Palestinian Arabs for being too pro-Israel.

In his latest book, 1967, on the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
, Segev contends that Israel considered deporting local Arabs to Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
 when the war was over as part of a population transfer
Population transfer

Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion....
. The plan was never implemented.

Books

  1. 1949: The First Israelis (Hebrew: 1984, ISBN 965-261-040-2; English
    English language

    English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
    : 1998, ISBN 0-8050-5896-6)
  2. Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps (1988, ISBN 0-07-056058-7)
  3. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate (2000, ISBN 0-316-64859-0)
  4. The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust (2000, ISBN 0-8050-6660-8)
  5. Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel (2003, ISBN 0-8050-7288-8)
  6. The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (2004, ISBN 1-56584-914-0)
  7. Israel in 1967. And the land changed its visage (Hebrew: 2005, ISBN 965-07-1370-0)
  8. 1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East, Metropolitan Books (2006)


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