ilan pappe

[sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx (Max Sawicky)]

Exerpt from petition in support of

" . . . Dr. Ilan Pappe, who holds a rank roughly equivalent to a tenured
Associate Professor, criticized the institution (University of Haifa) and
its procedures following the nullification of a highly controversial
Master's thesis that documented the fates of 5 Arab villages in northern
Israel during the 1948 war. The thesis, which was originally approved with
an excellent grade, was later nullified following pressure from veterans
groups. These groups threatened a libel suit because the thesis portrayed
them as possibly being responsible for a massacre. Dr Pappe unequivocally
asserted in his e-mail postings that the thesis was nullified not on
professional or scholarly grounds, but for personal and political reasons. .
. . "


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