| Bild: | What kind of role does anti-Semitism play in the Middle East Conflict? At what point does opposition to Israel turn into anti-Semitism? These issues are discussed by Brian Klug, British philosopher and journalist, and Robert Wistrich, director…
read moreIn the spring of 1995 in Gaza City, I met Musa Ziyada, a 15-year-old boy with huge almond eyes. He had apparently been recruited by Hamas, the radical Islamist group, to carry out a suicide bombing in Israel — a…
read moreWe wrote ‘The Israel Lobby’ in order to begin a discussion of a subject that had become difficult to address openly in the United States (LRB, 23 March ). We knew it was likely to generate a strong reaction, and…
read more(Fouad Ajami, Majid Khadduri Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, is author of “The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq,” forthcoming from the Free Press in July and can be pre-ordered…
read more(Benny Morris, a professor Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University. The full text of this article can be read on TNR ’s website.) John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” is a nasty…
read moreSpare the Rod, Spoil the Peace Font Size: By J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss: BIO | 28 Apr 2006 Discuss This Story! (18) Email | Print | Bookmark | Save The Bush administration announced earlier this month that…
read moreRebuttals to Mearsheimer and Walt Some Rebuttals to Mearsheimer & Walt’s “Israel Lobby” The manifesto attacking the “Israel Lobby” and its alleged stranglehold on US policy in the Middle East by two prominent “realist” academics, John Mearsheimer of the University…
read moreStrange Bedfellows By George Michael George Michael is an assistant professor of political science and administration of justice at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Next week the University Press of Kansas will publish his book The Enemy of…
read morePolitical Islam–aggressive, totalitarian–is now fully on the offensive. On January 3, Iran announced it would restart its nuclear program, which, despite its formal denials, is transparently meant to produce a nuclear weapon. On January 25, Palestinians gave a resounding electoral…
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