A Counterpunch essay on Freud, Zionism and Vienna by Palestinian-American academic Edward Said is, to start with, interesting because we get to hear his explanation of the famous news photo of him as a “rock-throwing terrorist.” I blinked to this photograph when it appeared in July, 2000. (The direct link to the photo is expired now.) Said was invited by the director of the Freud Institute and Museum in Vienna to deliver the renowned annual Freud lecture there in May 2001. He has a longstanding interest in Freud, who was an early anti-Zionist, Said explains, although advocated a Jewish state as European anti-Semitism grew with Hitler’s rise. Said planned to discuss non-European influences on and applicability of Freud’s basically Eurocentric views. But Said’s invitation was rescinded “because of the situation in the Middle East”. Requests by Said for further explanation went unanswered but the Institute director told the New York Times, as Said construes it, that the rock-throwing incident was the reason.