An Israeli graduate student who was sued for accusing Israeli soldiers of massacring Arabs during Israel’s War of Independence received money from the PLO during his trial. The PLO’s top official in Jerusalem, Faisal Husseini, provided $10,000 for the defense of Meretz Party activist Theodore Katz, who “revealed” in his University of Haifa master’s thesis that members of the Alexandroni Brigade massacred up to 200 Arabs in the village of Tantura.
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