Associated Press
Berlin — 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.
Micha Brumlik, the director of the Fritz Bauer Institute, accused Suhrkamp in an open letter on Tuesday of publishing "a tract that spreads anti-Semitic anti-Zionism (and) justifies the killing of Jewish civilians in Israel."
Suhrkamp said that the author had expressed unacceptably radical views in the Internet statements.
"He has adopted for himself what in the book was only a quotation: 'The Palestinians are right to look back to Fascist Germany and say they are the Jews of the Jews,'." the statement said.
"We regret that the author's attitude toward Palestinian terrorism did not become clear to this publishing house in sufficient time," it said.
Honderich's book appeared in English last year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Also, see Ted Honderich's web site for relevant documents pertaining to this matter, including:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/BrumlikLetOriginal.html
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/BrumlikHabermastrans.html
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/BrumlikReplybyTHEnglish.html
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