[presidio9]

If you think Hamas are "Freedom Fighters", then I think you're anti-semitic too. One of their leaders once said that he hoped that the Jews did all move back to Israel so that they'd be able to kill them all in one place.

When you take serious charges, and you throw them around lightly, you end up dessensitizing the world to the full implications. In light of recent world history, anti-Semite is a grave charge indeed. Perticularly on this webseite. Here is the quote you took out of context:

"Well, why do you call him a terrorist? I mean, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

So, in fact, Novack was not saying that he disliked Jews or Isreal, but that he did not find the term "terrorist" to be journalistically objective. I disagree with him there, and you are free to do so as well. But first, you owe the man an apology.

[aynrandfreak]

I'm not apologizing to an anti-semite. I know it's a serious charge, and it needs to be made. To justify a group that is dedicated, not just to the destruction of Israel, but to Jews per se is to me the definition of anti-semitism. The terrorists need people in the West like him to be able to be able to continue their intifadas.