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In reply to the discussion: W stands for Walker- George Walker Bush [View all]zappaman
(20,627 posts)Historically, Mearsheimer was content to sit back and use the same rhetoric and excuses as anti-Israel bigots. Then he ventured into supporting one of them, and then he doubled down on his support. And now not even people who want to see the Jewish State extinguished will travel with Mearsheimers chosen fellow traveler.
Late last year, the University of Chicagos Conservative Quarterly Counterpoint published an article on the Mearsheimer/Atzmon controversy. The piece contained a non-exhaustive list of anti-Semitic passages from Atzmons book, but it was particularly notable for its pointed opening sentence: When, after a long career built on a theory that domestic political relationships had a minimal impact on any states foreign policy, John Mearsheimer co-wrote The Israel Lobby, a popular book alleging the maximal impact of a small cabal on American foreign policy, we were perplexed at the incoherence.
Quite so. Mearsheimer had to give up a lifetime of almost metaphysical theory of international relations work so he could scapegoat American Jews and pro-Israel Christians for the worlds problems. Apparently, he gave up more than a little bit of his dignity as well.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/14/mearsheimer-anti-semitism-scandal/