Anonymous Comrade submits:

Suhrkamp Drops 9/11 Book for "Terrorist" Sympathies

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.h tml

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

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/BrumlikReplybyTHEngl ish.html