It begins.

Today, two scholars, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, from University of Chicago and Harvard, released a book on what they term the "Israel lobby" and how it effects our foreign policy. Let it be known that Mearsheimer and Walt are no screwballs by any stretch of the imagination. Both are/were widely respected for their knowledge of foreign policy and were considered "realists".
It all started when the Atlantic Monthly asked them to do a study on the influence of Jewish lobbying groups and how they may or may not effect our foreign policy. After the Atlantic Monthly read it they decided that they couldn't print it. Of course this is America and we are not allowed to talk about Israel's human rights violations. So since American journals are total sell out fucks they had to take it to England where their people are at least allowed a little more truthful information from their press. It received condemnation immediately from all sides, of course mostly American Jews which in a sense supports their thesis. From Alan "Lets torture people" Dershowitz to Abe "Grand Wizard" Foxman of the ADL. They spewed nonsense about how these professors are anti-semites and aren't qualified scholars. (This coming from a man who plagerized a fraud, for Christ's sake and is still the chair of Harvard Law School.) It is worth noting that two of the world's leading experts on Israel also had reservations about the book but no one wanted their opinions because they are "self-hating" Jews or as some have called them "Hamas Jews". It is an unwritten rule that Noam CHomsky will not be given air time in the U.S. so his opinion on the piece, which was very valuable, was not relevant because the press knows what Chomsky will go on to say about the history of Israel and we don't to open debate.
The book has been out one day so far and it is already raising an uproar. So far they have had an invite rescinded from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. It turns out that criticism of Israel is not acceptable in America home of a supposed free press. Abe Foxman wrote a book countering the points made in the book even though the book had not been released and Foxman could have no knowledge of what is in the book. My guess is that he falls back on the old canards of Antisemitism, shoddy scholarship(which makes you wonder about the quality of teachers at Harvard, if they can't write a research paper) and how the whole issue is "very complicated".
My thought is, if the authors are anti-semites and have a faulty arguement then why the need to attack them? Could it be that they are hitting it right on the head. THis of course, is just the latest in American Jewish reaction to criticism in the last year. Remember the rabid anti-semite Jimmy Carter who dared called Israel's actions in the West Bank as apartheid. As it turns out so do many Israelis. It should be said that no one attacked Carters thesis or facts instead it was typical ad hominem bullshit. Though that time it didn't work and it is proof that the "Lobby" is losing strength. I mean it is one thing when the world's leading intellectual condemns Israel but for people from Harvard and the University of Chicago(birthplace of Neo-Conservative thinking) to do so is too much. They must be stopped by whatever means possible and the more outrageous the better. Maybe next week Dershowitz will accuse of them as offspring of a Nazi or something, which of course, it is okay for a Jew to call a Gentile a Nazi but never the other way around.

The New Yorker Attacks
So does the NY Sun
National Review
At last some sanity from CounterPunch