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While it is unclear why anti-Semitic activists chose to target the Yard and Eliot, the National Vanguard and Weber’s institute have both turned their attention to Harvard in recent days. Both groups' sites feature links to an article co-authored by Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt claiming that "the Israel Lobby"—a loose coalition of journalists, politicians, think tanks, and Jewish leaders—steers U.S. policy in the Middle East...
...Walt and Mearsheimer identify Frankel as the “executive editor” of the Times, a position in charge of the paper’s news operations. An executive editor who inserted his own political viewpoint into news commentaries would be widely accused of flouting journalistic ethics...
...section of Frankel’s memoirs that Walt and Mearsheimer quote, Frankel is writing of his prior experiences as the Times’ editorial page editor, a position entirely separate from the paper’s news operations. In the period of Frankel’s life to which the quote refers, his job was to draft opinion pieces...
...Walt and Mearsheimer did not return repeated requests for comment...
...charge of a malevolent organized Jewish conspiracy is the most blatant form of anti-Semitism. In the 21st century, I find it insufficient that the Kennedy School of Government removed its logo from the scurrilous paper published last week by Kennedy School of Government Dean Stephen M. Walt and Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. I find it insufficient that the most prominent educational institution in the world added a more prominent disclaimer stating that the classic racist views expressed in that work belong only to the authors. I call on Harvard—take that paper...