The Freeman story is huge. Andrew Sullivan is obviously enraged; here he links Fareed Zakaria’s pretty good interview of Freeman under the headline, “Crackpot… See for yourself: the man too dangerous to be allowed into the US government.” And here…
Scott McConnell explains why he believes Jeffrey Goldberg has a trigger-finger for accusing others of antisemitism: It was probably this , Goldberg’s long review of Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer’s “The Israel Lobby”. Instead of engaging the arguments made by…
Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…
In 2006 Dershowitz accused Walt and Mearsheimer of being antisemites. He wrote that their landmark paper on the Israel lobby, which could only be printed in England, recycled the “blood libel” and other canards and was giving an imprimatur to…
I need to say more about Chuck Schumer, who played a critical role in the destruction of Chas Freeman. In fact, Schumer bragged that he had talked to the White House about Freeman—reportedly going to Rahm Emanuel. Someone who was…
Shaul Magid is an esteemed professor of Jewish studies at Indiana University. The latest Forward contains his review of David Myers’s book, Between Arab and Jew: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz, which ends with the paragraph below. Magid is…
Great analysis by Steve Walt of the Freeman affair, its chilling effect and the silver lining (Israel lobby was seen fleeing the scene of the crime in a Lexus). Great time-line and reporting of the foreign-policy establishment’s support for Freeman…
This is amazing. A nominee for a high intelligence position bows out of the job under fierce political attack and issues a blistering statement that the Israel lobby is endangering our national security by smearing anybody who disagrees with it…
Chas Freeman’s appointment is important in sociological terms. Freeman is the latest heir to a realist tradition in foreign policy that–while Jews have been adherents of it–has a gentile cast because it is associated with opposition to the recognition of…