WALT & MEARSHEIMER
 
 

OCTOBER

September 29 - October 5

 Sunday (October 7) on C-Span2 Book World: Mearsheimer & Walt (and also ADL's Abe Foxman)  Mearsheimer and Walt's appearance at Politics and Prose  (9am and 7pm).    ADL's Abe Foxman  at 10 pm )


Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Republic "The Usual Suspect" - "Mearsheimer and Walt's The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is not an act of scholarship, but an act of anti-Semitic intimidation"


The Forward - Mearsheimer & Walt "The Israel Lobby" -Foreign Language Translations and European Speak Tour "...The authors are embarking on a European visit next month, with speaking engagements scheduled at prestigious universities and think-tanks in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London. In London, they will also have an event at the House of Lords."

Video - John Mearsheimer on The Colbert Report, 10/2

Gal Beckerman, Columbia Journalism Review "The Israel Lobby Doesn't Control the Media"

Amitai Etzioni - "Small Lies, big lies, and the Israeli Lobby"


Daniel Levy's Haaretz Review of Walt-Mearsheimer (and Blog preamble)
 

 
Daniel Lazare, The Nation Reviews Mearsheimer and Walt 'The Israel Lobby' and ADL's Abe Foxman "The Deadliest Lies"

Milton Viorst Reviews Mearsheimer and Walt

Andrew Silow-Carroll, New Jersey Jewish News "Give me a P, give me an A, give me a C..

 

Geoffrey Wheatcraft, UK Guardian Review of Mearsheimer

SEPTEMBER

September 22-29

Leslie Gelb, NY Times Book Review (9/23)

First Chapter on NYT Site

Full-page New York Times Ad for Mearsheimer & Walt's "The Israel Lobby" 

Leonard Fein "Sheer Recklessness" - re Mearsheimer-Walt's "The Israel Lobby"

The Economist (UK) "America's Pro-Israel Lobby: Powerful but not that Powerful"

Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe "The Big Lie About The Great Silencer

Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on Mearsheimer-Walt's talk to Cleveland Club

Case Western Reserve's The Observer account of Mearsheimer-Walt's talk at Case

The UK Spectator (UK) -Jonathan Mirsky - The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy

Slate/Ron Rosenbaum - The Israel Lobby and the Second Holocaust Debate

 

September 15-22

Foreign Policy Magazine online "Seven Questions: The Israel Lobby Revisited" - Q&A with Walt & Mearsheimer

Los Angeles Times - Mearsheimer and Walt and the Israel Question - Highlights from the Israel Lobby authors' visit to the editorial board

Dallas Morning News - Mearsheimer and Walt - Excerpts from Editorial Board Meeting

Michael Gerson, Washington Post oped "Seeds of Anti-Semitism"

Slate/Ron Rosenbaum "The Israel Lobby and the Second Holocaust Debate: An emblematic error in a controversial Book

Scott McLemee - Newsday Review

Andrew Silow Carrol, New Jersey Jewish News - Israel's Secret? It's Nothing Special

Victor Hanson: Looking for Scapegoat, World Again Turns to Jews

Eric Fingerhut, Washington Jewish Week-  Mearsheimer/Walt talk at 'Politics and Prose'

AJC's David Harris/Jerusalem Post "Europeans' America Problem"

Michael Lerner/Tikkun (Sept-Oct 2007) "The Israel Lobby"

The Guardian (UK) - Ed Pilkington - Review/Interview with Walt-Mearsheimer

New Statesman US Editor, New Statesman "Saying the Unsayable"

George Hishmeh - Waking Up Slowly  

Times' Tony Karon Blog "Despite Backlash, Many Jews are Questioning Israel

MJ Rosenberg - Dershowitz Demands Obama Fire Brzezinski!

MJ Rosenberg/Haaretz -It's Lobbying but is it really pro-Israel?

The UK Independent by Independent Washington Correspondent, Leonard Doyle

Harvard Professor, J Lorand Matory,  Crimson, "Israel and Censorship at Harvard 

U-Montana's History Department Chair, Richard Drake "On being Called an Anti-Semitic inMontana. Is booking a critic of the Israel lobby to speak on your campus anti-Semitic?

September 7-14

George Shultz, US News and World Report (9/9) 'The Israel Lobby Myth'  

JTA's Ron Kampeas Q&A with Walt-Mearsheimer

JTA's Ron Kampeas - "Reporters Notebook. Probing Why Walt and Mearsheimer Misunderstand the pro-Israel Lobby"

Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun Times (9/7) "Unfair Charge vs Israeli Lobby"

Charles Taylor, Bloomberg Review "Deceitful Academics Spin Paranoid Fantasy of Pro-Israel Lobby"  

Richard Cohen - Washington Post (9/11) "Rationalizing Israel Out of Existence)  

Washington Times "The Best of Friends" (9/11- by Robert VerBruggen, Assistant Book Editor, Washington Times)

Townhall 's Nathan Tabor "The Price of Friendship"

Ex-CIA Philip Giraldi "Kissinger: Realist or Neocon?"

Ex-Ambassador Danny Ayalon - Jerusalem Post (9/7)

Seth Gitel/NY Sun (9/10) re Foxman book re Mearsheimer

AJC's Ken Stern - When All Else Fails: The Israel Lobby

MJ Rosenberg (9/7) Huffington Post "It's Lobbying, but is it really pro-Israel?

MJ Rosenberg - IPF Friday (9/7)

NJDC to Moran: Retract AIPAC Statements

Blog article  re Different Countries Cover of Mearsheimer Walt

Engel Dissappointed by Ford Foundation Forum for Mearsheimer (9/10)

Harvard Crimson Book Review (10/10)

Michael Smerconish/Philadelphia Inquirer (9/9) "Head Strong-'Anti-Semitic' label Curbs Talk about Israel"

James Abourezk - California Literary Review

Richard Ingrams/UK Independent (9/9) "It's About Time Someone Spoke Out"

September 1 - Sept 7
 

NY Times, William Grimes (9/6) "A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters"

Wall Street Journal oped by Jeff Robbins :Anti-Semitism and the Israel Lobby"

Jim Besser - NY Jewish Week - (9/7)Walt, Mearsheimer And The Gibson Factor

Ira Forman- NY Jewish Week -  Misreading The Power Of The ‘Lobby’

Lenny Ben David, National Review online (9/4) "Echoing the Moans of Anti-Israel Ghosts" 

Commentary Magazine's Gabriel Schoenfeld Blog "The Peculiar Fantasies" of Mearsheimer and Walt

Wall Street Journal re Mearsheimer and Walt at a jam-packed “Politics and Prose” (September 5)

Los Angeles Jewish Journal - Editor in Chief, Rob Eshman "Jew-Baiting"

ADL's Glen Lewy and Abe Foxman oped, Jewish Standard, New Jersey "A Fragile Time for our People"

CAMERA - Alex Safian - Mearsheimer’s Blunder

Yale's David Bromwich Huffington Post (9/4) - Iraq-Israel-Iran

U-Cal Irvine, Professor Mark Levine "No, it's the dog that wags the tail" 

Jeff Barak/Ynet Reviews Abe Foxman's The Deadliest Lies

George Friedman, Stratfor " The Israel Lobby in U.S. Strategy - (9/4)

Mark Silva Baltimore Sun/Chicago Tribune reports on Politics and Prose

Mariano Aguirre - Le Monde Diplomatique, Sept '07: Criticism of Israel anti-semitic? Shooting the messengers "

The American Thinker - Rick Rehman (9/4) "Walt, Mearsheimer and the Peace Process" 

Jacob Laskin Front Page Magazine "Israel Lobby Redux" (9/4)
 

                                OTHERS

Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Letter re Mearsheimer-Walt/Chicago Talk

Max Hastings - London Sunday Times (9/2) Review of Mearsheimer

Time Magazine's Tony Karon (9/2)  re Walt Mearsheimer

Philip Weiss/Mondo Weiss "A Hot Time in the Capital Last Night (re Politics and Prose)

Another report of Politics and Prose appearance via Philip Weiss/Mondoweiss 

MondoWeiss 8/20 "Serious. Cold. Stunning. Walt and Mearsheimer Arrive in Hard Covers"

Philip Weiss "The Jungle, Silent Spring, Unsafe at Any Speed' - And Now, 'The Israel Lobby' 

MondoWeiss - 9/1 "Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof that Tail Wagged the Dog' Points American Jews to a Universalist Ethos

AUDIO

Stephen Walt NPR (9/4)  Fresh Air  

ADL's Abe Foxman, NPR Fresh Air (9/4)

Audio -Walt & Mearsheimer - NPR’s On Point (Dennis Ross and Aaron Miller were call-in guests.)  
 

AUGUST

August 24-31

David Remnic, New Yorker 

Dimitri Simes, Kemp,Halper, Fishman - National Interest Online

New York Sun, Ira Stoll 8/28 "Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act'

Jerusalem Post 8/31- Editor's Note "Jeopardizing American Interests

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Dore Gold/JCPA

Ben Fishman, The Washington Institute  

AFP - 8/30  "New Book Challenges US Support for Israel"

Jerusalem Post 8/27 - "Israel, AIPAC won't parry Walt-Mearsheimer Book"

2006 ARTICLE
 

CNI COMPILATION FOR 2006 ARTICLES

http://www.cnionline.org/learn/IsraelLobby/IsraelLobbycommentaries1.htm

Commentaries on "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy"
 

For Mearsheimer and Walt's Response to their Critics, London Review of Books, May 11, 2006
 

Positive
Paige Austin, Grabbing the Third Rail, Interview with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Mother Jones, July
   18, 2006
Michael Massing, Storm over the Israel Lobby, New York Review of Books, June 8, 2006
Alexander Coburn, The Row Over the Israel Lobby, Counterpunch, May 8, 2006
Norman Solomon, Opening the Debate on Israel, Baltimore Sun, May 7, 2006
Philip Weiss, Ferment Over "The Israel Lobby, The Nation, May 15, 2006
Norman Finkelstein, The Israel Lobby: It's Not Either/Or, Counterpunch, May 1, 2006
Molly Ivins, Let's call the Israel lobby the Israel lobby, Working for Change, April 26, 2006
Uri Avnery, Who's the Dog, Who's the Tail, Gush Shalom, April 24, 2006
Paul Findley, Study Shows Undue Israeli Influence on U.S. Policy., Springfield (Ill) Journal-Register, April 19,     2006
Tony Judt, A Lobby Not a Conspiracy,  The New York Times, April 19, 2006
Juan Cole, Breaking the Silence: The Overwrought Response to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's Brave Paper Only Confirms Its Thesis, Salon, April 18, 2006
Adla Massoud, A harsh light on America's Israel lobby, Aljazeera.Net, April 13, 2006
Eric Alterman, AIPAC's Complaint, The Nation, April 13, 2006
Edward Peck,  Of Course There Is an Israel Lobby, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 6, 2006
Paul Findley, United States Must Address Control of Its Middle East Policies by the Israeli Lobby, Common    Dreams, March 30, 2006
 

News

Alan Finder, Essay Stirs Debate About Influence of a Jewish Lobby, New York Times, April 12, 2006
Rupert Cornwell, At last, a debate on America's support for Israel, The Independent, April 7,2006
Jay Lindsay, Academics' Paper on 'Israel Lobby' Blasted, The Associated Press, April 5, 2006
Joshua Holland, "Harvard Takes on the Israel Lobby," AlterNet, April 4, 2006
Mark Mazower, When vigilance undermines freedom of speech, Financial Times, April 3 2006
Peter Beaumont,  Editor hits back over Israel row, The Observer, April 2 2006
Julian Borger, US professors accused of being liars and bigots over essay on pro-Israeli lobby, The Guardian, March 31, 2006
Nicholas Goldberg. Who's afraid of the 'Israel Lobby'?, The Los Angeles Times, March 26,2006
Jefferson Morley,  Global Divide on Israel Lobby Study, Washington Post, March 31, 2006
Charles A. Radin, 'Israel lobby' critique roils academe, The Boston Globe, March 29, 2006
Ori Nir, "Professor Says American Publisher Turned Him Down," Forward, March 24, 2006
Shmuel Rosner, Harvard to remove official seal from anti-AIPAC 'working paper', Haaretz, March 23, 2006
Editorial, A warning from America, Haaretz, March 23, 2006
Tom Regan, "Study Alleges US Sets Aside Its Own Security Interests for Israel's," Christian Science Monitor, March 21, 2006

Critiques

Alan Dershowitz, A reply to the Mearsheimer Walt "Working Paper," posted on the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University website, April 6, 2006
Noam Chomsky, The Israel Lobby?, Znet Magazine,  March 28, 2006
Joseph Massad, Blaming the lobby, Al-Ahram Weekly, March 23-29, 2006

Negative News Items and Commentaries

Eliot A. Cohen, "Yes, It's Anti-Semitic", Washington Post, April 5, 2006
   see reply by Richard Cohen, No, It's Not Anti-Semitic, Washington Post, April 25, 2006
David Gergen,  An unfair attack, U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2006.
Josef Joffe, Walt and Mearsheimer: Anti-American, The New Republic Online, April 4, 2006
Martin Peretz, Surveying the Israel Lobby: Oil and Vinegar, The New Republic Online, March 30, 2006
Max Boot, Policy analysis -- paranoid style, Los Angeles Times, March 29,2006
Op Ed, Of Israel, Harvard and David Duke, The Washington Post, March 26, 2006
Daniel Levy, So pro-Israel that it hurts, Haaretz, March 25, 2006
Meghan Clyne, Kalb Upbraids Harvard Dean Over Israel, New York Sun, March 24, 2006
Nathan Guttman, AIPAC study is ignorant propaganda, The Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2006
Ruth Weiss, Israel Lobby, Wall Street Journal, March 22,2006
Meghan Clyne, Harvard's Paper on Israel Called 'Trash' By Solon, New York Sun, March 22, 2006
Meghan Clyne, A Harvard School Distances Itself from Dean's Paper, New York Sun, March 22, 2006
Alex Safian,  Study Decrying “Israel Lobby” Marred by Numerous Errors, CAMERA, March 20, 2006

2007 BOOK - SELECTED ARTICLES
 

George Shultz, US News and World Report (9/9) oped 'The Israel Lobby Myth'  

George Shultz- Intro to Abe Foxman's 'The Deadliest Lies'

NY Times, William Grimes (9/6) "A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters" 

Wall Street Journal oped by Jeff Robbins :Anti-Semitism and the Israel Lobby"

Ira Forman- NY Jewish Week -  Misreading The Power Of The ‘Lobby’

Lenny Ben David, National Review online (9/4) "Echoing the Moans of Anti-Israel Ghosts" 

New York Sun, Ira Stoll 8/28 "Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act' 

Jerusalem Post 8/31- Editor's Note "Jeopardizing American Interests 

Dore Gold/JCPA

Ben Fishman, The Washington Institute  

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