5 The alleged offensive remarks made by me at Talk Karl Marx such as that TFD was not a historian were in response to statements by Snowded made there section Marx and armed uprising in Belgium at implying that I was telling lies However given your history I am not taking the sources on trust without sight of the text and to statements made by TFD section Criticism implying that I was an anti Semite your reference to the Jewish question is extremely offensive when in fact a I had never either there or anywhere else referred to any Jewish question but to Karl Marx s essay On the Jewish Question and b there was nothing in my statements that could have been construed even remotely as offensive or anti Semitic In fact TFD later apologized for his remarks thereby implicitly admitting that they were unjustified without however removing them