There's more anti-Semitism from Britain.
Melanie Phillips reports.
[T]he Guardian publishes this letter from the philosopher Ted Honderich, a professor at University College, London: The revelations in detail (Report, 25 January) of the intransigent greed, the escape from decency, of Israeli governments in negotiation with our selected leaders of the Palestinians, serve one purpose among others. They provide a further part of what is now an overwhelming argument for a certain proposition. It is that the Palestinians have a moral right to their terrorism within historic Palestine against neo-Zionism. The latter, neither Zionism nor of course Jewishness, is the taking from the Palestinians of at least their autonomy in the last one-fifth of their historic homeland. Terrorism, as in this case, can as exactly be self-defence, a freedom struggle, martyrdom, the conclusion of an argument based on true humanity, etc (my emphasis).
Ted Honderich
London
The UK has a law criminalising incitement to terrorism. Now that Professor Honderich has endorsed the murder of Israelis, will the Director of Public Prosecutions apply the law to him?
Don't hold your breaths.
There's more anti-Semitism from Britain. Melanie Phillips reports.
I see your point, but can you name any good that ever came from terrorism? No, only bad things. It always empowers evil over good.
ReplyDeleteI see his point, but can you name any good that ever came from terrorism? No, only bad things. It always empowers evil over good.
ReplyDeleteBut is he inciting to terrorism? That's a stretch that would infringe unnecessarily on free speech.
You are assuming there is Free Speech in England. There isn't.
ReplyDeleteThe Ayatollah Khomeini and Ahmedinejad.
ReplyDeleteThe al-Guardian no doubt thinks terrorism did wonderful things in Iran and Professor Honderich would no doubt heartily concur.
Liberalism has gone off on a bender, to the detriment of freedom-loving people the world over!
Easy for the good professor to say, he's an over-credentialed wanker. His "point", such as it is, is that he hates Israel, knows nothing about Judaism, roots about in darkness lighting matches to his pseudo-intellectual farts for light, and drinks his own regurgitated blather.
ReplyDeleteAnd some lucky students get to pay for this crap.