Today’s Chicago Tribune finally covers the censorship of Walt and Mearsheimer at the Global Affairs Council and highlights the shocking fact that Abe Foxman–the denier of Armenian genocide out of concern for the state of Israel– was consulted by the Council before it decided to pull the plug on the distinguished authors. What an abasement of judgment.
Kudos to the Tribune for treating this scandal for what it is, a free-speech issue. A rightwing Jew attempts to justify silencing Walt and Mearsheimer in this article by calling their book "shoddy scholarship." This is a libel. Say they are wrong, say they have bad judgment. But the book’s sizeable endmatter will show that they have done their homework on issues that are central to American statecraft. When will my community, the Jewish community, wake up to its own leadership’s transformation into thought-police?
