Reply #31: Israel lobby paper proves true

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"John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's paper, "The Israel Lobby," predictably rankled the lobby and its legions of handlers so much so that Harvard University must have compelled the authors to remove the logo from the original paper. Unsurprisingly, other "working papers" in the same series get to keep the logo (see for yourself).

Professor Alan Dershowitz, of all people, stated about this working paper: "There is no scholarship here whatsoever."

This, coming from a guy who plagiarized his horrific piece of propaganda, "The Case for Israel," from a thoroughly discredited waste of paper called "From Time Immemorial," which Joan Peters put out in the 1980s. Norman Finkelstein, who demolished Peters' credibility, also exposed the scholarly fraud known as Alan Dershowitz in his recent book, "Beyond Chutzpah."

As far as I am concerned, the actual reaction to this paper further proves its thesis. As the New York Sun reports, it was met with "furor from faculty members, Jewish leaders, and a congressman who say it fails to meet academic standards and promotes anti-Semitic myths."

As Harvard tries to distance itself from the paper, we again see the inability of many academics and institutions to critically engage a power structure that seeks to squash any dissent towards America's support for Israel."

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