Dershowitz Challenges Walt/Mearsheimer to Debate
Charles Johnson
Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 6:10 pm PST • Views: 278
Alan Dershowitz is righteously pissed off about the Walt-Mearsheimer anti-Israel article published in the London Review of Books: ‘AIPAC study is ignorant propaganda’.
Prominent Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is taking on the authors of the study, which blasted the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, AIPAC.
Dershowitz, one of Israel’s strongest defenders in the American public and academic arena, was mentioned personally in the study as an “apologist” for Israel, claiming he is one of those responsible for endorsing the notion that Israel pursued peace in the Middle East for many years.
Dershowitz slammed the authors - Stephan Walt, from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago - and challenged them to a public debate at the Kennedy School.
“You have to counter this article”, Dershowitz told The Jerusalem Post, “These are two serious scholars and you need to expose what they have done as ignorant propaganda”.
Dershowitz, who is now working on a paper which will refute the claims in the Walt-Mearsheimer article, argues that there is no original material in it and that “the challenge is to find a single idea in the piece that does not already appear in hate websites. There is no scholarship here whatsoever”.
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