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...cannot indulge in Professor Walt??s speculation about “what if” the target of Kramer’s policies had been different. The WCFIA has never excommunicated an affiliate for political or policy views. We cannot go in the direction Mr. Bowman, Ms. Gharavi, and Mr. Rashid suggest—vetting associates for such positions, even on something as distasteful as racism. What we can and must do is screen our affiliates for the highest possible scholarly qualifications, and then let them burnish or ruin their own reputations by non-scholarly utterances...
...like other human beings, which means that they are capable of both good and bad deeds.” The lobby, on the other hand, seems to insist on the media’s almost unconditional approval for and support of Israel’s actions.Of course, Mearsheimer and Walt??s arguments about the lobby’s domination of public discourse bear striking similarities to conspiratorial claims that Jews “control the media.” The two are careful to point out, however, that the Israel lobby is not a “cabal?...
...caused by that paper, which argues that US foreign policy is excessively pro-Israel, was unrelated to Walt??s resignation, which had been planned before the paper’s release, Ellwood has said...
...monocausal social science.” And the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America issued a statement claiming that “a student who submitted such a paper would flunk.”But the most furious criticism was heard a few blocks north of Walt??s office from Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who wrote prolifically to attack the article, called its authors “liars” and “bigots,” and challenged them to a public debate at the Kennedy School.There was also criticism...
...however, warn about complacency, saying that “what we can’t afford to do is be incompetent,” and cited Walt??s argument that power rests on legitimacy and legitimacy rests on competence...