{"id":437,"date":"2003-10-23T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T01:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/23\/american-after-the-terror-update\/"},"modified":"2003-10-23T21:18:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T01:18:25","slug":"american-after-the-terror-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/23\/american-after-the-terror-update\/","title":{"rendered":"American After the Terror update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a632'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while back I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/09\/16\">mentioned<\/a> the dispute in Germany over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/rooij1204.html\">Ted Honderich&#8217;s book, <i>After the Terror<\/i><\/a>.  Now there&#8217;s an American response by Richard Wolin, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v50\/i09\/09b01201.htm\">Are Suicide Bombings Morally Defensible?<\/a> in <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i>.  Good read; this is the conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><\/i>Was Honderich&#8217;s endorsement of Palestinian suicide bombing anti-Semitic? Technically, no. Yet it could easily be construed in that way. For, in addition to being a (disputable) military gambit, suicide bombings constitute a highly freighted act of political symbolism. They deliver an unambiguous message: All Jews &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I mentioned the dispute in Germany over Ted Honderich&#8217;s book, After the Terror. Now there&#8217;s an American response by Richard Wolin, Are Suicide Bombings Morally Defensible? in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Good read; this is the conclusion: Was Honderich&#8217;s endorsement of Palestinian suicide bombing anti-Semitic? Technically, no. Yet it could easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}