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The '''New Historians''' ({{lang-he|ההיסטוריונים החדשים}} ''HaHistorianim haHadashim'') 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. Much of their [[primary source]] material comes from declassified Israeli government papers, partially because Arab institutions lack open archives. The movement includes scholars such as [[Benny Morris]], [[Ilan Pappé]], [[Avi Shlaim]], [[Tom Segev]], [[Hillel Cohen]] and (retrospectively) [[Simha Flapan]]. Many of their conclusions have been incorporated into the political ideology of [[post-Zionism|post-Zionists]]. The political views of the group vary as do the periods of Israeli history in which they specialize.

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==Main arguments==
Avi Shlaim described the New Historians differences from the "official history" in the following terms, however it should be noted that Israel has no official history and that the new historians do not represent a unified body of thought. In addition Israeli understanding of national history has changed over the years, partially incorporating the ideas of the new historians. According to Shlaim:

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===New Historians Critique of the Old Historians===
:*The “Old Historians” lived through 1948 as highly committed adult participants in the epic, glorious rebirth of the Jewish commonwealth. They were unable to separate their lives from this historical event, unable to regard impartially and objectively the facts and processes that they later wrote about.<ref name
=%26quot%3B = "making Israel">[[Benny Morris]],''Making Israel'', University of Michigan Press, 2007, pp.14–15.</ref>

:*The “Old Historians” have written largely on the basis of interviews and memoirs and at best made use of select batches of documents, many of them censored.<ref name=%26quot%3B = "making Israel"/>

:*Benny Morris has been critical of the old Historians, describing them, by and large, as not really historians, who did not produce real history: "In reality there were chroniclers and often apologetic",<ref>Benny Morris 1948 and after; Israel and the Palestinians, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994. ISBN 0-19-827929-9. p.6</ref> and refers to those who produced it as "less candid", "deceitful" and "misleading".<ref>Benny Morris(contracted; show full)[[de:Neue israelische Historiker]]
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