This Monday, the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold a panel discussion featuring the thoroughly discredited authors of the antisemitic screed “The Israel Lobby:” ‘Israel Lobby’ Authors To Speak at DC Press Club Forum: Financial News.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ — On Monday, August 28, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will host a panel discussion on “The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The panel will feature Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, authors of a recent Harvard University paper titled “The Israel Lobby.” [They neglect to mention that Harvard University has removed their imprimatur from this ugly work of fiction. —ed.]

In that paper, the authors stated: “Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the other country — in this case, Israel — are essentially identical.”

SEE: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

WHAT: The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon

WHEN: Monday, August 28, 2006, 1-2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Holeman Lounge, National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

RSVP: Admission is free, but seating is limited. E-mail irahman@cair.com to reserve a seat. Admittance by confirmed reservation only.

“For America to be regarded as an honest broker in the Middle East, we must disengage our policies in that region from the dictates of the pro-Israel lobby,” said CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed.

He noted that public attitudes about the influence of the Israel lobby are changing. He cited a commentary in today’s New Jersey Star-Ledger in which that newspaper’s national political correspondent stated: “Bush must abandon his policy of unconditional support for Israel in favor of an even-handed one that might gain him credibility in the region as a more or less honest broker. And the best way to move Bush in that direction is by abandoning the unofficial taboo in this country on questioning Israel or our policy toward that country.”

If you’re wondering why CAIR seems so active lately, it may have something to do with that $50 million they recently received from overseas radical Islamic groups: Media Campaign in US to Dispel Islamophobia.