Question

Two historians from this country argued events such as the Armenian and Assyrian genocides should be understood as a single thirty-year genocide of Christians in the former Ottoman Empire. This country’s Alexandroni Brigade sued the author of a Masters thesis alleging a massacre in Tantura. A lawyer’s book about this country was attacked on Democracy Now by a man later denied tenure at Depaul for plagiarizing Joan Peters’ From Time Immemorial. A group of historians who challenged the (*) voluntary nature of an event concerning this country’s founding became its “New Historians,” a term coined by Benny Morris. Those historians have argued that Plan Dalet deliberately resulted in the Nakba under this country’s first leader, David Ben-Gurion. (10[2])For 10 points, name this country whose historians have analyzed the expulsion of the Palestinians. ■END■

ANSWER: Israel [or State of Israel; or Medīnat Yīsrā’ēl; or Dawlat Isrā’īl]
<Emmett Laurie, Other History>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sean FarrellNorth FloridaFSU B11510
Khanh NguyenFlorida BFSU A11510

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%33%17%96.33
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%95.67
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%20%0%90.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%25%97.25
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%82.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%107.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%115.00