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Alexandroni Brigade
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The Alexandroni Brigade (the 3rd Brigade) is an Israel Defense Forces brigade that fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Along with the 7th Armoured Brigade both units had 139 killed during the Battles at Latrun.
In 1998, Teddy Katz wrote a master's thesis at Haifa University arguing that the Alexandroni Brigade committed a massacre in the Arab village of Tantura during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[citation needed] The veterans of the brigade sued Katz for libel.[citation needed] During the court hearing Katz conceded by issuing a statement withdrawing his own work. He then tried to withdraw his statement, but the court disallowed it and ruled against him.[citation needed] Some of Katz's legal costs were paid by the Palestinian Authority.[citation needed] A committee at Haifa University found problems with the thesis. Some quotations in the thesis did not accord with interview recordings, although only 6 out of a total of 243 testimonies were misrepresented, such as substituting the word "German" for "Nazi."[citation needed] The university suspended his degree and asked him to resubmit his thesis.[citation needed] The new thesis was given a "second-class" pass.[citation needed]
- Tantura massacre
- Post-Zionism
- Alexandroni's Official Site (Hebrew)
- Interview with Ilan Peppe about Teddy Katz and the AUT boycott, Haaretz
- Teddy Katz affair, Haaretz
- PLO Financed Academic Fraud at the University of Haifa, Dr. Aaron Lerner IMRA September 1, 2002
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