An important moment. Larry Derfner reports that he was fired by the Jerusalem Post for a column in which he stated that Palestinians have the “right” to use terrorism and that he would do everything he could to stop them from exercising that right, oppressed or not– a statement he subsequently apologized for.
From his blog: “I got fired by the Jerusalem Post today”
Posted on August 29, 2011 by Larry Derfner
I got fired by The Jerusalem Post today. The paper got hundreds of notices of cancellations of subscription after my blog post (“The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror”) of Sunday last week; the reason being given for my firing, though, is the substance of the essay, despite the apology I published later. A page-one notice to this effect will be published in the Post tomorrow.
My apology was to have run in the Post yesterday, but a logistical mix-up prevented it. Today the paper ran a column by Isi Liebler titled “Justifying murder – an abomination,” which, like nearly all of the right-wing websites attacking my original essay (I took it down from my blog upon publishing the apology), it gives extremely short shrift to all the things I wrote that show my intent was not to encourage terror, but the opposite:
Thanks to commenter thankgodI’matheist
