How this book treat the history of Israel/Palestine question is analysed through a PhD thesis that has been conducted under professor Ilan Pappe’s supervision in the European centre for Palestine Studies (ECPS). According to the results of the thesis, this book is the first most adopted textbook in the area of Israel/Palestine history in western universities.
This academic investigation expose how the report of the question’s history in this book is undermined by a pro-Israeli bias or the way it resist it. For more information about this research you can consult with:
https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/18334
An article is, also, published by Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies that contain the main results of that research :
http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/hlps.2016.0142