Updated October 6
WALT & MEARSHEIMER
OCTOBER
September 29 - October 5
Sunday
(October 7) on C-Span2 Book World: Mearsheimer & Walt (and also ADL's Abe Foxman) Mearsheimer
and Walt's appearance at Politics and Prose (9am and 7pm).
ADL's Abe Foxman at 10 pm )
Atlantic Monthly's Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Republic "The Usual
Suspect" - "Mearsheimer
and Walt's The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is not an act of
scholarship, but an act of anti-Semitic intimidation"
The Forward - Mearsheimer & Walt "The Israel Lobby" -Foreign Language
Translations and European Speak Tour "...The authors are embarking on a
European visit next month, with speaking engagements scheduled at prestigious
universities and think-tanks in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London. In
London, they will also have an event at the House of Lords."
Video - John Mearsheimer on The Colbert Report, 10/2
Gal Beckerman, Columbia Journalism Review "The Israel Lobby Doesn't Control the Media"
Amitai Etzioni - "Small Lies, big lies, and the Israeli Lobby"
Daniel Levy's Haaretz Review of Walt-Mearsheimer (and Blog preamble)
Milton Viorst Reviews Mearsheimer and Walt
Andrew Silow-Carroll, New Jersey Jewish News "Give me a P, give me an A, give me
a C..
Geoffrey Wheatcraft, UK Guardian Review of Mearsheimer
SEPTEMBER
September 22-29
Leslie Gelb, NY Times Book Review (9/23)
Full-page New York Times Ad for Mearsheimer & Walt's "The Israel Lobby"
Leonard Fein "Sheer Recklessness" - re Mearsheimer-Walt's "The Israel Lobby"
The Economist (UK) "America's Pro-Israel Lobby: Powerful but not that Powerful"
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe "The Big Lie About The Great Silencer
Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on Mearsheimer-Walt's talk to Cleveland Club
Case Western Reserve's The Observer account of Mearsheimer-Walt's talk
at Case
The UK Spectator (UK) -Jonathan Mirsky - The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy
Slate/Ron Rosenbaum - The Israel Lobby and the Second Holocaust Debate
September 15-22
Foreign Policy Magazine online "Seven Questions: The Israel Lobby Revisited" -
Q&A with Walt & Mearsheimer
Los Angeles Times - Mearsheimer and Walt and the Israel Question - Highlights
from the Israel Lobby authors' visit to the editorial board
Dallas Morning News - Mearsheimer and Walt - Excerpts from Editorial Board
Meeting
Michael Gerson, Washington Post oped "Seeds of Anti-Semitism"
Scott McLemee - Newsday Review
Andrew Silow Carrol, New Jersey Jewish News - Israel's Secret? It's Nothing Special
Victor Hanson: Looking for Scapegoat, World Again Turns to Jews
Eric Fingerhut, Washington Jewish Week- Mearsheimer/Walt talk at 'Politics and Prose'
AJC's David Harris/Jerusalem Post "Europeans' America Problem"
Michael Lerner/Tikkun (Sept-Oct 2007) "The Israel Lobby"
The Guardian (UK) - Ed Pilkington - Review/Interview with Walt-Mearsheimer
New Statesman US Editor, New Statesman "Saying the Unsayable"
George Hishmeh - Waking Up Slowly
Times' Tony Karon Blog "Despite Backlash, Many Jews are Questioning Israel
MJ Rosenberg - Dershowitz Demands Obama Fire Brzezinski!
MJ Rosenberg/Haaretz -It's Lobbying but is it really pro-Israel?
The UK Independent by Independent Washington Correspondent, Leonard Doyle
Harvard Professor, J Lorand Matory, Crimson, "Israel and Censorship at Harvard
September 7-14
George Shultz, US News and World Report (9/9) 'The Israel Lobby Myth'
JTA's Ron Kampeas Q&A with Walt-Mearsheimer
ZOA on Walt-Mearsheimer "US Supports Israel because of Americans, Not Lobby"
Los Angeles Times - Tim Rutten (9/12) "Israel's Lobby as Scapegoat"
Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun Times (9/7) "Unfair Charge vs Israeli Lobby"
Charles Taylor, Bloomberg Review "Deceitful Academics Spin Paranoid Fantasy
of Pro-Israel Lobby"
Richard Cohen - Washington Post (9/11) "Rationalizing Israel Out of Existence)
Washington Times "The Best of Friends" (9/11- by Robert VerBruggen, Assistant
Book Editor, Washington Times)
Townhall 's Nathan Tabor "The Price of Friendship"
Ex-CIA Philip
Giraldi "Kissinger: Realist or Neocon?"
Ex-Ambassador Danny Ayalon - Jerusalem Post (9/7)
Seth Gitel/NY Sun
(9/10) re Foxman book re Mearsheimer
AJC's Ken Stern - When All Else Fails: The Israel Lobby
MJ Rosenberg (9/7) Huffington Post "It's Lobbying, but is it really pro-Israel?
MJ Rosenberg - IPF
Friday (9/7)
NJDC to Moran: Retract
AIPAC Statements
Blog article re Different Countries Cover of Mearsheimer Walt
Engel Dissappointed
by Ford Foundation Forum for Mearsheimer (9/10)
Harvard Crimson Book
Review (10/10)
Michael Smerconish/Philadelphia Inquirer (9/9) "Head Strong-'Anti-Semitic'
label Curbs Talk about Israel"
James Abourezk - California Literary Review
Richard Ingrams/UK Independent (9/9) "It's About Time Someone Spoke Out"
September 1 - Sept 7
NY Times, William Grimes (9/6) "A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters"
Wall Street Journal oped by Jeff Robbins :Anti-Semitism and the Israel Lobby"
Jim Besser - NY Jewish Week - (9/7)Walt, Mearsheimer And The Gibson Factor
Ira Forman- NY Jewish Week - Misreading The Power Of The ‘Lobby’
Lenny Ben David, National Review online (9/4) "Echoing the Moans of Anti-Israel
Ghosts"
Commentary Magazine's Gabriel Schoenfeld Blog "The Peculiar Fantasies" of
Mearsheimer and Walt
Wall Street Journal re Mearsheimer and Walt at a jam-packed “Politics and Prose”
(September 5)
Los Angeles Jewish Journal - Editor in Chief, Rob Eshman "Jew-Baiting"
ADL's Glen Lewy and Abe Foxman oped, Jewish Standard, New Jersey "A Fragile Time
for our People"
CAMERA - Alex Safian - Mearsheimer’s Blunder
Yale's David Bromwich Huffington Post (9/4) - Iraq-Israel-Iran
U-Cal Irvine, Professor Mark Levine "No, it's the dog that wags the tail"
Jeff Barak/Ynet Reviews Abe Foxman's The Deadliest Lies
George Friedman, Stratfor " The Israel Lobby in U.S. Strategy - (9/4)
Mark Silva Baltimore Sun/Chicago Tribune reports on Politics and Prose
The American Thinker - Rick Rehman (9/4) "Walt, Mearsheimer and the Peace Process"
Jacob Laskin Front Page Magazine "Israel Lobby Redux" (9/4)
OTHERS
Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Letter re Mearsheimer-Walt/Chicago Talk
Max Hastings - London Sunday Times (9/2) Review of Mearsheimer
Time Magazine's Tony Karon (9/2) re Walt Mearsheimer
Philip Weiss/Mondo Weiss "A Hot Time in the Capital Last Night (re Politics and Prose)
Another report of Politics and Prose appearance via Philip Weiss/Mondoweiss
MondoWeiss 8/20 "Serious. Cold. Stunning. Walt and Mearsheimer Arrive in Hard Covers"
Philip Weiss "The Jungle, Silent Spring, Unsafe at Any Speed' - And Now, 'The Israel Lobby'
AUDIO
Stephen Walt NPR (9/4) Fresh Air
ADL's Abe Foxman, NPR Fresh Air (9/4)
Audio -Walt & Mearsheimer - NPR’s
On Point (Dennis Ross and
Aaron Miller were call-in guests.)
AUGUST
August 24-31
David Remnic, New Yorker
Dimitri Simes,
Kemp,Halper, Fishman - National Interest Online
New York Sun, Ira Stoll 8/28
"Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act'
Jerusalem Post 8/31- Editor's Note "Jeopardizing American Interests
Ben Fishman, The Washington Institute
AFP - 8/30 "New Book Challenges US Support for Israel"
Jerusalem Post 8/27 - "Israel, AIPAC won't parry Walt-Mearsheimer Book"