The Alexandroni Brigade (the 3rd Brigade) was an Israeli brigade that fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The State of Israel (Hebrew: מדינת ישראל, translit. ... The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the War of Independence by Israelis and al Nakba the catastrophe by Arabs, was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ...

In 1998, Teddy Katz received an A+ grade from Haifa University for a master's thesis which claimed that the Alexandroni Brigade committed a massacre in the Arab village of Tantura during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The veterans of the brigade sued Katz for libel. 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. Some of Katz's legal costs were paid by the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile a committee at Haifa University found serious problems with the thesis, including "quotations" that were contradicted by Katz's records of interview. The university suspended his degree and asked him to resubmit his thesis. The new thesis was given a "second-class" pass. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The University of Haifa (אוניברסיטת חיפה) is a university in Haifa, Israel. ... The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the War of Independence by Israelis and al Nakba the catastrophe by Arabs, was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ...

See also

• Tantura massacre
• Post-Zionism

Post-Zionism refers to the views of some Israeli and diaspora Jews, particularly in academia, that Zionism fulfilled its ideological mission with the creation of modern State of Israel in 1948 and that the ideology should therefore be considered to be at an end. ...

External Links

• Teddy Katz affair (http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=203871&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y), Haaretz
• PLO Financed Academic Fraud at the University of Haifa (http://www.ourjerusalem.com/hotnews/story/hotnews20020903a.html), Dr. Aaron Lerner IMRA September 1, 2002