 Joel
Kovel writes about the Mearsheimer and Walt paper on
the Israel Lobby in his book Overcoming
Zionism, "It is not only the transgressions of the Israeli-American
apparatus that must be denied, but its very existence. And
so when two high-profile political scientists from Harvard
and the University of Chicago published a long and scholarly
essay early in 2006 calling into question the activities
of an "Israel lobby" as deleterious to both the United States
and Israel, AIPAC and its attack dog-intellectuals sprang
into action, baying accusations of antisemitism and every
possible calumny in its direction and in the process proving
the article's thesis, that there is a potent thought police
patrolling the question of Zionism and impeding a minimally
honest debate on Israel in the United States." Kovel,
Overcoming
Zionism, p. 148
Kovel's
footnote to this paragraph includes a revealing quote from
a former executive director of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee:
As for AIPAC, its former executive director
Morris Amitay pooh-poohed the essay in the New
York Sun: "I would be worried if Henry Kissinger
was saying this. But who are these guys? As far as I'm
concerned this is a tribute
to the Jewish community. We couldn't do
anything about Auschwitz, but look, we
now control foreign policy for a region of the world so
vital to American interests." -
thus barefacedly admitting what he is supposed to deny.
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