Debating the 'Lobby'

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have drawn fire for their views on Israeli clout in Washington, a topic they explore in a new book 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.'

Obama Pulls Campaign Ad on Amazon.com Page of ‘Israel Lobby'
By RUSSELL BERMAN | September 11, 2007
WASHINGTON — Wary of alienating Jewish voters, the campaign of Senator Obama has moved swiftly to remove an ad for its Web site that appeared on the Amazon.com page of a book critical of the Israel lobby. A small ad for barackobama.com was one of a...

Engel ‘Disappointed' by Ford Forum for Mearsheimer
By ANNIE KARNI | September 10, 2007
The Ford Foundation, which came under congressional scrutiny in 2003 for supporting groups committed to destroying Israel, is again drawing censure from elected officials and watchdog groups, this time for funding a panel at Columbia University...

Confronting ‘The Israel Lobby'
By SETH GITELL | September 10, 2007
For people who say their ideas can't get heard, those who contend "the Israel Lobby" has a poisonous grip on American foreign policy are getting a lot of airtime these days. Stephen Walt, co-author of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,"...

Two Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act
By IRA STOLL | August 29, 2007
Professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government burst onto the national scene in March of 2006 with a Harvard "working paper" in which they wrote of the "unmatched power of the Israel...

What if They're Wrong?
By SETH GITELL | June 9, 2007
BOSTON — Bright morning sun shone through the 38th floor windows of the Harvard Club of Boston onto some 33 breakfasters, among them Stephen Walt, the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the co-author of "The Israel Lobby and U...

Poland Abruptly Cancels a Speech By Local Critic of the Jewish State
By IRA STOLL | October 4, 2006
The government of Poland, moving to avoid getting embroiled in anti-Israel politics, last night abruptly canceled a scheduled speech by a professor at New York University who has become hostile to the Jewish state, just hours before the event was to...

‘Israel Lobby' Caused War in Iraq, September 11 Attacks, Professor Says
By IRA STOLL | September 29, 2006
A tenured professor at the University of Chicago last night blamed the "Israel Lobby" in America for both the Iraq war and the attacks of September 11, 2001. Speaking to a crowd of hundreds at the Cooper Union, he was met mostly with support from two...

What We Owe the Lobby
By HILLEL HALKIN | April 25, 2006
What is left to say about Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Policy," published by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, that has not been said? It's a shoddy piece of pseudo-"scholarship" whose attack on Israel...

Poison Passed Like Candy
By BENNY AVNI | April 24, 2006
The polemic against an entity so nefarious it's mostly uppercased as "The Lobby" by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer has received insufficient attention in America, the paper's fans say. They should feel better now that the tract against the American...

Willful Negligence or Premeditated Prejudice
By AMNON RUBINSTEIN | April 5, 2006
The paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," written by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, has met so much controversy, including on this page from Professor Alan Dershowitz (March 31) that it would seem useless to add fuel to the...

A Special Relationship
By DORE GOLD | April 5, 2006
It was mid-morning on December 27, 1962, when President Kennedy hosted the foreign minister of Israel, Golda Meir, in Palm Beach, Fla., for a heart-to-heart review of U.S.-Israel relations. Kennedy's language was unprecedented. In the secret...

High Stakes at Harvard
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ | March 31, 2006
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when Harvard University was a model campus when it came to discussions of the Arab-Israeli conflict. To be sure, there were a small number of extremists and haters on both sides, but the discourse around...

'Israel Lobby' Dean To Leave Post in June
By MEGHAN CLYNE | March 28, 2006
WASHINGTON - The academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, currently facing a storm of criticism for a paper he co-authored about an "Israel lobby," will step down at the end of June, according to the School's administrators and faculty...

'Israel Lobby' Study Attracts More Abuse
By MEGHAN CLYNE | March 27, 2006
WASHINGTON - One of America's most prominent Jewish advocacy organizations has jumped into the fray surrounding the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's academic paper about the "Israel lobby," denouncing the paper as "a sloppy diatribe." Criticism...

Harvard's Paper on Israel Drew From Neo-Nazi Sites
By MEGHAN CLYNE | March 24, 2006
WASHINGTON - A prominent Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, is alleging that the authors of a Harvard Kennedy School paper about the "Israel lobby," one of which is the Kennedy School's academic dean, culled sections of the paper from neo-Nazi...

The Belfer Declaration
Editorial of The New York Sun | March 23, 2006
For those covering the effort of anti-Israel academics to demonize the Jewish state in the American academy, things don't get more dramatic than the scandal at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. It turns out that the Kennedy School's...

A Harvard School Distances Itself from Dean's Paper
By MEGHAN CLYNE | March 23, 2006
WASHINGTON - Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is removing its logo from a paper about the "Israel lobby" that was co-authored by its academic dean. The new version of the paper also has a more prominent disclaimer warning that the paper's views...

Harvard's Paper on Israel Called 'Trash' By Solon
By MEGHAN CLYNE | March 22, 2006
WASHINGTON - The uproar over a paper co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about what is described as the far-reaching influence of an "Israel lobby" erupted on Capitol Hill yesterday, as one congressman labeled...

Kalb Upbraids Harvard Dean Over Israel
By MEGHAN CLYNE | March 21, 2006
WASHINGTON - The furor over a paper co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about what is described as the far-reaching influence of an "Israel lobby" intensified yesterday, as it drew sharp criticism from a...

David Duke Claims to Be Vindicated By a Harvard Dean
By ELI LAKE | March 20, 2006
A paper recently co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about the allegedly far-reaching influence of an "Israel lobby" is winning praise from white supremacist David Duke. The Palestine Liberation Organization...

Harvard, Chicago, and the 'Lobby'
Editorial of The New York Sun | March 17, 2006
"The combination of unwavering U.S. support for Israel and the related effort to spread democracy throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized U.S. security. ... Why has the United States been willing to set aside its...