Egyptian sociologist and human-rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who is teaching in the U.S. rather than doing jail time in Egypt, spoke at Harvard, where he is a visiting fellow, the other day. I'm told:
Saad said that the Israel lobby was working against the Egyptian democracy movement. The lobby is fearful of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and hence a strangled democracy is a more desirable outcome.
Still: a bit breathtaking. At one time, Saad was popular with pro-Israel supporters. He supported normalization with Israel. He met Israelis and wrote critically about Islamist violence. Now he's on the wrong side.
Here's his picture, in the lineup for April 28, at the bottom, pink tie, gray beard.
