Israel Lobby War of Words: A Bibliography

The venomous debate this year over the Israel Lobby's influence over American foreign policy has all the makings of good old democratic dialogue: research, reasoning, lofty ideas, religious fervor, and plenty of irrelevant ad hominem vilification. What follows is a list of the major publications in the debate, for your reading pleasure.

Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer originally wrote a piece on the power of the Israel Lobby for the Atlantic Monthly, but the magazine rejected it, and so began the firestorm.

<> Mearsheimer & Walt's original "Working Paper" posted on the Harvard website.

<> Similar piece, published in the London Review of Books.

<> Reader letters LRO published subsequently.

<> The New York Sun reports that Mearsheimer & Walt's paper has vindicated David Duke and the Palestinian Liberation Organization is distributing it in Washington.

<> Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz responds with, "Debunking the Newest - and Oldest - Jewish Conspiracy."

<> The New York Sun takes its reporting further, with headline: "Harvard's Paper on Israel Drew From Neo-Nazi Sites."

<> Michael Massing follows up with an in-depth, heavily-researched analysis of the situation in the New York Review of Books, and more importantly, an accounting of the power of the AIPAC in Washington.

<> Tony Judt, "A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy," in the New York Times.

<> Eliot Cohen, "Yes, It's Anti-Semitic," in the Washington Post.

<> Christopher Hitchens at Slate, "Overstating Jewish Power."

<> Even Noam Chomsky gets in on the action, "The Israel Lobby?"

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