[wvns] Walt & Mearshimer Speechless in Chicago
Walt and Mearsheimer Banned in Chicago
August 10, 2007
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/
Unbelievable that Walt and Mearsheimer have been banned from speaking
in Chicago. Again proving the profs' argument about the strength of
the Israel lobby. Where is Alan Dershowitz? Even he ought to decry
this censorship, which is only forcing the discussion of an important
issue underground-ish, to the blogosphere. I guess that is what the
lobby wants. If the Global Council in Chicago dignifies the argument,
well, then it could get on to the cover of Time. As one of the
commenters says on the site linked above, this sort of behavior just
builds the backlash.
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Controversy over a planned speech.
Speechless in Chicago
Jay Solomon reports
August 7, 2007
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/08/07/speechless-in-chicago/
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has canceled a September speech
on U.S.-Israel relations and Washington's pro-Israel lobby by two
prominent U.S. political scientists.
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were scheduled to use the Sept. 27
address to outline their upcoming book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy," which is expected to be released by Farrar, Straus &
Giroux early next month. But the president of the Chicago Council,
Marshall Bouton, canceled the event under pressure from critics who
were uncomfortable with the academics' arguments, according to a
letter drafted by Mearsheimer and Walt to the Council's board.
These opponents of the event argued that the two political scientists
could only address the Chicago Council if someone from the opposing
side, "such as Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League,
concurrently appeared on stage with the authors.
"One might argue that our views are too controversial to be presented
on their own," Mearsheimer and Walt wrote. "However, they are seen as
controversial only because some of the groups and individuals that we
criticized in our original article have misrepresented what we said."
Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, and
Walt, on the faculty at Harvard, set off a political firestorm last
year when they penned an article for the London Review of Books,
called the "Israel Lobby," that argued pro-Israel interest groups had
distorted U.S. policies in the Middle East. They also argued that
these groups played a central role in promoting the Bush
administration's decision to invade Iraq.
Since the original article appeared in March 2006, the two academics
have appeared at a number of ventures to explain their views, such as
the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Press Club and
Georgetown University. But a number of leading Jewish-American
organizations, such as the ADF and the American Jewish Congress, have
consistently charged that Mearsheimer's and Walt's views are
anti-Semitic and overemphasize the power of the pro-Israel lobby.
Mearsheimer and Walt deny being anti-Semites and said the charges are
designed "to discourage respected organizations like the Council from
giving us an audience."
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