Last week Harvard issued a paper that blames the Israel lobby (AIPAC) for brainwashing the US into setting aside their own security in order to advance the interests of Israel. The paper is available in PDF here.
The general thesis of the paper is that since 1967 all US administrations have been duped into surrendering US security to a conspiracy of international Zionist Jews. These Jews have used their lobbying organisation to create a network that is used to brainwash every US administration so that they can effectively control the US.
The network according to the authors include the editors of the New York Times, the scholars of the Brookings institute, students at Columbia, and "neoconservative gentiles".
Today James Taranto reports that white supremacist David Duke has praised the paper.
| Duke, a former Louisiana state legislator and one-time Ku Klux Klan leader, called the paper "a great step forward," but he said he was "surprised" that the Kennedy School would publish the report. Now of course, just because Duke endorses Walt and Mearsheimer doesn't mean they endorse him. Indeed, we suspect they're as mortified by this praise as Yale is by the criticism it has received over Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi. Yet without ascribing to them any invidious motives, it seems fair to say that their views dovetail disturbingly with those of unquestioned anti-Semites. |
Taranto's column at the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal responds to many of the accusations made in the 83 page paper and is a must read.
The New York Sun has more.
| Marvin Kalb, founding director of the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, said, "It clearly does not meet the academic standards of a Kennedy School research paper....It is a rather sensational example of 'realist' journalism....Walt would be better advised to stick to scholarship and leave journalism to journalists, who generally check their 'facts' before publishing them." President Clinton's special Middle East envoy, Dennis Ross, said the authors displayed "a woeful lack of knowledge on the subject....It is masquerading as scholarship." |
Is it just me or is this symbolic of an undercurrent in large parts of the world that just cannot stand to see Jews wield any form of power - whether it be a state of their own with a strong military or influence in other countries?
One of the authors has since responded to the furor his paper has caused.
| "I have discussed your inquiry with my co-author, Professor Mearsheimer," he told the Sun." We appreciate the invitation to respond to the comments, but prefer not to." |
Indeed.
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