DESCRIPTION ACCEPTABLE. This event led to the removal of a local mayor, Aref al-Aref, who then became its most prominent journalistic chronicler.
DESCRIPTION ACCEPTABLE. This event led to the removal of a local mayor, Aref al-Aref, who then became its most prominent journalistic chronicler. A dissertation documenting the Alexandroni Brigade's role in facilitating this action at Tantura led to the high profile trial of Theodore Katz. This event accelerated rapidly after a massacre at Deir Yassin, whose survivors were paraded around in chains in the back of trucks. The idea that this event was voluntary has been effectively disproven by scholars like Ilan Pappe and Benny Morris, leaders of the New Historians, who suggest that it was executed as part of Plan Dalet by Irgun. Known in Arabic as the Nakba, for 10 points, identify this mass emigration that uprooted a national group during the 1948 Israeli Independence War.
DESCRIPTION ACCEPTABLE. This event led to the removal of a local mayor, Aref al-Aref, who then became its most prominent journalistic chronicler.
The Palestinian Exodus [accept any reasonable equivalents; accept Nakba or catastrophe before mentioned; prompt on the 1948 War or equivalents]