the trial, the university appointed a committee to examine it. After reviewing the taped interviews and finding discrepancies between them and what was written in the thesis, Katz was allowed to submit a revised thesis. Pappé continues to defend both Katz and his thesis. Tom Segev and others argued that there is merit or some truth in what Katz described. According to the Israeli New Historian Benny Morris: "There is no unequivocal proof of a large-scale massacre at Tantura, but war crimes were perpetrated there." In January 2022, Alon Schwarz' film Tantura was shown at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. In it, former Israeli soldiers admitted that a massacre did indeed take place in 1948 at Tantura. “They silenced it,” one former combat soldier stated. The victims of the massacre were buried under what is today the Dor Beach parking lot, in an area measuring 35 x 4 meters. Adam Raz noted in Haaretz that there had been a public debate about the issue, with Yoav Gelber trying to discredit Katz’s thesis, while Pappé defended the thesis. Adam Raz noted "With the appearance of the testimony in Schwarz’s film, the debate would seem to be decided." Political activism In 1999, Pappé ran in the Knesset elections as seventh on the Communist Party-led Hadash list. After years of political activism, Pappé supports economic and political boycotts of Israel, including an academic boycott. He believes boycotts are justified because "the Israeli occupation is a dynamic process and it becomes worse with each passing day. The AUT can choose to stand by and do nothing, or to be part of a historical movement similar to the anti-apartheid campaign against the white supremacist regime in South Africa. By choosing the latter, it can move us forward along the only remaining viable and non-violent road to saving both Palestinians and Israelis from an impending catastrophe." As a result, then University of Haifa President Aaron Ben-Ze'ev called on Pappé to resign, saying: "it is fitting for someone who calls for a boycott of his university to apply the boycott himself." He said that Pappé would not be ostracized, since that would undermine academic freedom, but he should leave voluntarily. In the same year, Pappé initiated the annual Israeli Right of return conferences, which called for the unconditional right of return of the Palestinian refugees who were expelled in 1948. In August 2015, Pappé was a signatory