Word: pro-israel
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Several asked about the paper, published by outgoing Kennedy School of Government Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago’s John J. Mearsheimer, arguing that a pro-Israel lobby controls U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East...
...react to “two professors who wrote about the Hebrew lobby,”— a reference to a controversial paper authored by Kennedy School Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago political scientist John J. Mearsheimer that criticizes pro-Israel activists in the U.S.,— Dershowitz responded by saying, “You just stole my thunder.” Dershowitz argued that Pharaoh was simply responding to chemical and biological threats, the plagues of frogs, vermin, and boils. “It’s the policy...
...another tempest: some critics have blasted a paper co-authored by Kennedy School of Government Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt as anti-Semitic. The paper contends that an “Israel Lobby” of academia, the media, and government have hijacked U,S, foreign policy to pursue pro-Israel interests. Summers’ defended the Kennedy School’s handling of the situation—the school has not removed the paper from its website and has allowed Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz to post a critical response. But Summers would not offer an opinion...
...debate over a Kennedy School administrator’s paper criticizing pro-Israel activists in the U.S. is heating up, with both sides accusing each other of manipulating and misusing sources...
Walt and Mearsheimer write: “In his memoirs, for example, former [New York] Times executive editor Max Frankel acknowledged the impact of his pro-Israel attitude on his editorial choices.” They cite Frankel as saying: “I myself wrote most of our Middle East commentaries. As more Arab than Jewish readers recognized, I wrote them from a pro-Israel perspective...