Rodinson refers to "the fear of Jewish terrorism", and in the very next sentence describes Deir Yasdsin as "ann act of terror". It is hardly synthesis to recognise that he describes the massacre as "terrorism". The full passage from Gilbert reads: The killings in Deir Yassin gave the Arabs a powerful rallying call against the Jews. The killings also brought fierce Jewish criticism down upon the Irgun and the Stern Gang. Bernard Joseph later recalled how the terrorists "earned the contempt of most Jews in Jerusalem, and an unequivocal public repudiation by the Jewish Agency"."