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...furor stems from a paper written last month by Kennedy School Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago political scientist John J. Mearsheimer claiming that American foreign policy toward the Middle East is controlled by the “Israel Lobby,” a “loose coalition” of politicians, journalists, think-tanks, and Jewish leaders...
...statement to The Crimson, Dershowitz said that Mearsheimer and Walt "make outrageous and unsupportable claims; they invoke academic freedom in the marketplace of ideas, but then they refuse to participate in the marketplace of ideas by declining reasonable debate about their position...
Mearsheimer and Walt did not return phone calls to their offices seeking comment this past week...
Dershowitz is preparing a rebuttal to the Mearsheimer and Walt article that will be posted on the KSG website. Ellwood said in a brief phone interview last night that he would allow "full-time Harvard faculty members" to post responses to KSG professors’ working papers on the school’s site...
...When you take the job, you agree to it for three years," Ellwood said. He added that Schauer agreed to a two-year extension. And he said that Walt served an extra year to assist with the transition at the school’s helm. Ellwood became the KSG’s top administrator in the summer...