Yale has taken some critical heat after accepting the former Taliban spokesman into its ranks and now a Harvard professor finds himself being praised by famous anti-Semite David Duke. What a week for higher education.
A paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” by the Yale Kennedy School of Government’s Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, charges that a conspiracy of journalists, think tanks, lobbyists, and largely Jewish officials have seized the foreign policy debate and manipulated America to invade Iraq. Included in this widespread effort are noted columnist George Will and even students at Columbia University.
One wonders how many publications of the Kennedy School of Government Mr. Duke reads but he noted, “I am surprised by how excellent it (the paper) is.”
Mr. Duke is not the only one who appreciates the efforts of these two academics. The Palestine Liberation Organization mission to Washington is distributing the paper, which also is being hailed by a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, by the way, is not one of the more moderate, live-and-let-live Islamic groups.
Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has called the paper “trash” and that sounds like an accurate description. The authors have began to feel a little academic heat in response to their essay.
But it is disturbing and chilling that this type of nonsense — not to mention anti-Semitism — has been given the imprint of the Kennedy School of Government, one of the most noted institutions in the nation.
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