WBAI 99.5 FM, New York’s left-wing radio station, is holding a fundraiser at the Brecht Forum on October 4. The event will feature “Britain’s foremost radical philosopher,” Ted Honderich, who will speak about “Right and Wrong: The Ethics of Terrorism.” Here is a brief indication of Honderich’s grasp of right and wrong:
I myself have no serious doubt, to take the outstanding case, that the Palestinians have exercised a moral right in their terrorism against the Israelis. They have had a moral right to terrorism as certain as was the moral right, say, of the African people of South Africa against their white captors and the apartheid state. Those Palestinians who have resorted to necessary killing have been right to try to free their people, and those who have killed themselves in the cause of their people have indeed sanctified themselves.
As Jon Pike has conclusively demonstrated in the November/December 2005 issue of Democratiya, Honderich is a crackpot. Of course, the promo copy for the WBAI event carries a glowing endorsement of Honderich — from Noam Chomsky.
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