`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.          `