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  "ar": "إيلان بابيه",
  "en": "Ilan Pappé",
  "ur": "ایلان پاپے"
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  "ar": "مؤرخ إسرائيلي ⁦(وُلد في حيفا سنة 1954)⁩، من أبرز «المؤرخين الجدد». أستاذ في جامعة إكستر حيث يدير المركز الأوروبي للدراسات الفلسطينية؛ ويذهب كتابه «التطهير العرقي في فلسطين» (2006) إلى أن خروج الفلسطينيين سنة 1948 كان طرداً مخططاً له.",
  "en": "Israeli historian (born 1954 in Haifa), a leading figure among the New Historians. He is professor at the University of Exeter, where he directs the European Centre for Palestine Studies; his The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) argues that the 1948 Palestinian exodus was a planned expulsion.",
  "ur": "اسرائیلی مؤرخ ⁦(پیدائش 1954ء، حیفا)⁩، «نئے مؤرخین» کی سرکردہ شخصیت۔ یونیورسٹی آف ایکسٹر میں پروفیسر اور یورپی مرکزِ مطالعۂ فلسطین کے سربراہ؛ ان کی کتاب «فلسطین کی نسلی تطہیر» ⁦(2006ء)⁩ کے مطابق 1948ء میں فلسطینیوں کا انخلا ایک منصوبہ بند بے دخلی تھی۔"
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  "earliest": 1954.8484226233256,
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   "note": "Born at Haifa on 7 November 1954: the English biography and Wikidata agree on the day. The Hijri year 1374 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "value": "אילן פפה",
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    "value": "إيلان بابيه",
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   "edtf": "1954-11-07",
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   "note": "Born at Haifa on 7 November 1954: the English biography and Wikidata agree on the day. The Hijri year 1374 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "note": "FLAGGED for a founder ruling. Every substantial biography attests Pappé's family background — born at Haifa to Ashkenazi German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazi persecution — which is background and never counts. Descriptions of the man himself as 'a Jew' and 'an Israeli Jew' do circulate, but in minor or partisan outlets and in category filings, and his own published words describe his birth 'to a German Jewish family' and his younger self as a 'typical Jew' before his political transformation: identity language, with no attestation of religious belief or practice anywhere, and Wikidata carries no religion value at all. The schema has no jewish value, and the lane does not convert an ethnic and family identity into a faith settlement on this evidence. Held unknown, flagged: if a founder rules that the identity descriptions document a Jewish identity for the man himself on the two-source bar, the settlement becomes other/documented.",
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  "person/abbas-mahmoud-al-aqqad",
  "person/abd-al-aziz-al-ghumari",
  "person/abd-al-fattah-abu-ghudda",
  "person/abd-al-halim-mahmud",
  "person/abd-al-jabbar-al-jumurd",
  "person/abd-al-qadir-al-maghribi",
  "person/abd-al-rahman-badawi",
  "person/abd-al-rahman-ibn-nasir-al-sadi",
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