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1948 -- The village of Tantura, one of 500 Palestinian coastal villages obliterated by the new Israeli government in their 1948 'ethnic cleansing.' Teddy Katz, University of Haifa graduate student, got high marks for his MA thesis on the fate of Tantura. And then, Katz was sued by the perpetrators [alleged], members of the 'Alexandroni Brigade,' The University of Haifa quickly caved in, taking away Katz' MA, refusing to stand behind his scholarship and the university's role in overseeing and honoring Katz (Katz had gone out of his way to record on audio cassette his interviews, a measure not required especially since Israel's premier historian, Benny Morris, discounts oral history as not useful in Israel's special case). Katz, who suffered a mild stroke in the early days of The Trial, was induced to capitulate, averring that there had been no genocide. Katz's cousin-attorney, a ranking officer in the Israeli army, told Katz "... he did 'not want to arrive at the moment that those Palestinians that [Katz] interviewed will [be able] to climb on the stage of court law and begin telling what they do remember from this war...This is going to be a very sad day for all of us, if this will happen.'" Teddy Katz joins the ranks of those Jews who stand up to Jewish despotism, men such as Uriel da Costa, Israel Shahak, Mordechai Vanunu, Gilad Atzman et alia. (part 4 of 4) yoryevrah
1948 -- The village of Tantura, one of 500 Palestinian coastal villages obliterated by the new Israeli government in their 1948 'ethnic cleansing.' Teddy Katz, University of Haifa graduate student, got high marks for his MA thesis on the fate of Tantura. And then, Katz was sued by the perpetrators [alleged], members of the 'Alexandroni Brigade,' The University of Haifa quickly caved in, taking away Katz' MA, refusing to stand behind his scholarship and the university's role in overseeing and honoring Katz (Katz had gone out of his way to record on audio cassette his interviews, a measure not required especially since Israel's premier historian, Benny Morris, discounts oral history as not useful in Israel's special case). Katz, who suffered a mild stroke in the early days of The Trial, was induced to capitulate, averring that there had been no genocide. Katz's cousin-attorney, a ranking officer in the Israeli army, told Katz "... he did 'not want to arrive at the moment that those Palestinians that [Katz] interviewed will [be able] to climb on the stage of court law and begin telling what they do remember from this war...This is going to be a very sad day for all of us, if this will happen.'" Teddy Katz joins the ranks of those Jews who stand up to Jewish despotism, men such as Uriel da Costa, Israel Shahak, Mordechai Vanunu, Gilad Atzman et alia. (part 4 of 4) yoryevrah
