Tonight Walt and Mearsheimer appeared with honor at the London School of Economics. It is reported that in the next couple days they will be speaking at the House of Lords and at Chatham House–the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Garlanded in England, the scholars are pilloried in the U.S. Trashed at Yivo Institute last night, trashed by Chatham’s House’s American equivalent: the Council on Foreign Relations.
This is simply tragic. It is now evident that mainstream institutions in the U.S. are determined to deny these men a platform. The Council on Foreign Relations should be hosting a debate. So should Yivo. ’60 Minutes’ tough producers should be challenging the authors on facts and personal background. The Times should be having a roundtable. But no, all are afraid of their ideas. So our mainstream institutions willfully divorce themselves from reality.
(Why Do They Hate Us? On his blog, Marty Peretz, who kicked off last night’s bashing session in Manhattan, calls Palestine (and by implication its people) "a small glob of land" –that’s scatological–and says Jordan should take it over. Peretz also champions the "incorporation into the Jewish State" of Area E, a huge tract of land east of Jerusalem, whose annexation would only immortalize the fragmentation of the West Bank into bantustans, north and south and East Jerusalem.)
