You don't have to be an apologist for Hizbullah to be suspicious of it. In most every instance of it that one comes across it serves as a bloody shirt to try to get people to acquiesce in what the US has done in Iraq and Afghanistan and what the US/Israel is doing in Lebanon. Any analytical category whose primary political function is to get people to acquiesce in war crimes deserves a high level of scrutiny.
My recollection is that Doug himself cited Cole's denunciation of Hizbullah for rocketing Israeli cities. You conflate two issues, perhaps tendentiously.
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:45:41 -0400
> From: "Chip Berlet" <c.berlet at publiceye.org>
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Eric Lee vs. Sean Matgamna of the AWL debating
> Israel
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Doug,
>
> I understand that many people use the term Islamo-fascism as a catch-all epithet, but there are serious scholars, including some on the left, who think that some Islamic militant movements should be seriously considered to be clerical fascist or theocratic fascist movements. I understand your anger and frustration, but I dislike having some of my claims, that are published in scholarly publications, dismissed as merely "bullshit." And Eric Lee is hardly a crackpot. And is Juan Cole a crackpot for suggesting that Hezbollah has engaged in war crimes? Get a grip.
>
> -Chip Berlet