Israel Lobby
Why AIPAC Is Good for the Jews – and For Everyone Else by Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest, April 5, 2010
The Israel Lobby is Me by Michael Sean Winters, America (The National Catholic Magazine), March 12, 2009
Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State by Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008
An open letter to Professors Mearsheimer and Walt by Maurice Ostroff, June 12, 2008
The Fraudulent Scholarship of Professors Walt and Mearsheimer by Alex Safian, CAMERA, February 11, 2008
Israel’s true friends by Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2008
“The pro-Israel lobby is not responsible for congressional support for a strong alliance with Israel. Like the vast majority of Americans, we support Israel for a very basic and obvious reason: America is at its best when we align ourselves with allies that share our values of tolerance, freedom and democracy.”
Israel’s ties that bind: Shared history and values, not the lobby, unite Israel and the U.S. by Mitchell Bard, Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2008
“Although John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt accuse the ‘Israel lobby’ of bullying American politicians into a positive relationship with Israel, the truth is that the long-standing U.S.-Israel alliance exists because it is good for America.”
The U.S.-Israel Relationship: Fact and Fiction by David A. Harris, American Jewish Committee, Presentation to the German Council on Foreign Relations, December 17, 2007
Are American Jews Too Powerful? Not Even Close. by Ruth Wisse, Washington Post, November 4, 2007
Dual Loyalties by Leslie H. Gelb, New York Times, September 23, 2007
“The authors are mostly wrong, as well as dangerously misleading. [....] Why have two such serious students of United States foreign policy written so weak a book and added fuel, inadvertently, to the fires of anti-Semitism?”
Confronting the Saudi lobby, by Charles Jacobs, Paradigm Shift, September 21, 2007
Rationalizing Israel Out of Existence by Richard Cohen, Washington Post, September 11, 2007
“Mearsheimer and Walt disappoint. They had an observation worth making and a position worth debating. But their argument is so dry, so one-sided — an Israel lobby that leads America around by the nose — they suggest that not only do they not know Israel, they don’t know America, either.”
Deceitful Academics Spin Paranoid Fantasy of Pro-Israel Lobby by Charles Taylor, Bloomberg News, September 10, 2007
The ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth by George P. Shultz, U.S. News & World Report, September 9, 2007
An Open Letter to Harvard’s Stephen Walt by Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss, The Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), September 8, 2007
Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Israel Lobby by Jeff Robbins, Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2007
Mearsheimer’s Blunder by Alex Safian, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), September 5, 2007
The Lobby, by David Remnick, New Yorker, September 3, 2007
Understanding the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Walt-Mearsheimer Claim by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints, September 2007
Sloppy Scholarship, Part II, The Jewish Week, August 31, 2007
“Walt and Mearsheimer offer dashes of truth and big dollops of outright falsehood, all wrapped in a thin academic veneer devoid of genuine scholarship. In renewing their attack on the pro-Israel community, they only complicate the search for a fair, secure peace for the Middle East.”
Two Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act by Ira Stoll, New York Sun, August 29, 2007
Missing the Point by Ben Fishman, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, National Interest Online, August 27, 2007
The Wrong Guys, The Forward editorial, August 22, 2007
“The trick follows a typical pattern. Step one: Publish your views in as provocative a manner as possible. Use words like “apartheid,” as Jimmy Carter did in his book, or paint Jewish lobbying efforts in darkly conspiratorial terms, as Walt and Mearsheimer did in a paper published last year. Step two: Dare the Jewish community to lash out at you, then whine about being victimized by bullies. Step three: Implore fair-minded liberals to line up behind you, forcing them to choose between endorsing your vision — however skewed — or becoming part of the censorship juggernaut.”
Forward by George P. Schultz from: “The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control” by Abraham H. Foxman
Backlash Over Book on Policy for Israel by Patricia Cohen, New York Times, August 16, 2007
And Now For Some Facts by Benny Morris, The New Republic, May 8, 2006
Yes, It’s Anti-Semitic by Eliot A. Cohen, Washington Post, April 5, 2006
Overstating Jewish Power: Mearsheimer and Walt give too much credit to the Israeli lobby by Christopher Hitchens, Slate, March 27, 2006
An Unfair Attack by David Gergen, U.S. News and World Report, March 26, 2006
“Not only are these charges wildly at variance with what I have personally witnessed in the Oval Office over the years, but they also impugn the loyalty and the unstinting service to America’s national security by public figures… . As a Christian, let me add that it is also wrong and unfair to call into question the loyalty of millions of American Jews who have faithfully supported Israel while also working tirelessly and generously to advance America’s cause, both at home and abroad. They are among our finest citizens and should be praised, not pilloried.”
Kalb Upbraids Harvard Dean Over Israel by Meghan Clyne, New York Sun, March 21, 2006
“They quote only those people who basically have this point of view and don’t take a serious look at anything in a more profound way. It is masquerading as scholarship.” –Dennis Ross (President Clinton’s special Middle East envoy)
When Should We Stop Supporting Israel? by Victor Davis Hanson, Private Papers, March 28, 2004
