German publisher drops book supporting Palestinian terrorism

[Gimel]

A German publisher has dropped a British-Canadian philosopher's book dealing with the fallout of the Sept. 11 attacks because of recent statements by the author that appear to support Palestinian "terrorism."

Suhrkamp said in a statement Wednesday that it was relinquishing rights to Ted Honderich's After the Terror, published in German last month, after complaints from a Holocaust research centre about the author's recent statements on Palestinian attacks.

Honderich argued "the Palestinians do indeed have a moral right to their terrorism" in a statement that appeared in a lecture recently posted on his Internet site, though not presented as his own opinion in the book which examines the moral implications of the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1060230923309

[the_sam]

1. Going just a bit too far

Not only is terrorism always morally wrong, but also ineffective.

The Palestinians are perfectly justified in struggling violently against their occupiers, but not in targeting civilians. I support guerrilla war, not terrorism.

[Violet_Crumble]

2. I think I found the lecture that's being talked about...

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I'd suggest to anyone wanting to do so that they read beyond the first paragraph, otherwise they're going to get the same thing out of it that someone dozing off in the first minute of a lecture will...

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/terrforhum.html


Violet...