Comments on: Walt & Mearsheimer talk canceled http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dan http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388989 dan Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:21:40 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388989 http://www.forward.com/articles/11461/ "It’s been a pattern with these two since the beginning. When their original paper, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” first appeared, they claimed that it couldn’t be published in the United States, and so they were forced to release it in a British journal, the London Review of Books (and simultaneously on the Harvard Web site, by the way). “Couldn’t be published here,” as it turned out, meant that they had been commissioned by one magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, but when the 16,000-word manuscript was turned in, it was rejected. And so they gave up on America." (article can also be found here: http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=1359) http://www.forward.com/articles/11461/

“It’s been a pattern with these two since the beginning. When their original paper, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” first appeared, they claimed that it couldn’t be published in the United States, and so they were forced to release it in a British journal, the London Review of Books (and simultaneously on the Harvard Web site, by the way). “Couldn’t be published here,” as it turned out, meant that they had been commissioned by one magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, but when the 16,000-word manuscript was turned in, it was rejected. And so they gave up on America.”

(article can also be found here: http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=1359)

]]> By: Issandr El Amrani http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388802 Issandr El Amrani Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:00:50 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388802 Brad, Does every lecture have to represent both points of view? If Naomi Klein comes to university or a center to lecture about sweatshops, does Nike automatically have a right to send someone to lecture? That's preposterous and you know it, and your comment is a lame attempt to go off the point, especially as the Council's director cancelled the talk. rl, I don't see your point. I never said that W&M are barred from all conferences and all media. But this is not the first time that prominent academics are barred from giving a lecture seen as hostile to Israel, see for instance the Tony Judt case. Also read: http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000874 Brad, Does every lecture have to represent both points of view? If Naomi Klein comes to university or a center to lecture about sweatshops, does Nike automatically have a right to send someone to lecture? That’s preposterous and you know it, and your comment is a lame attempt to go off the point, especially as the Council’s director cancelled the talk.

rl, I don’t see your point. I never said that W&M are barred from all conferences and all media. But this is not the first time that prominent academics are barred from giving a lecture seen as hostile to Israel, see for instance the Tony Judt case.

Also read: http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000874

]]> By: Brad Brzezinski http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388795 Brad Brzezinski Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:16:20 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388795 W & M had their book published without trouble. Take the case of: "Alms for Jihad: Charity And Terrorism in the Islamic World," by J. Millard Burr. The publisher (Cambridge University Press) has recalled all unsold books and asked libraries to destroy their copies, thanks to legal pressure from Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, part of the SAUDI LOBBY. Just asking that an opposing point of view be present seems pretty tame don't you think? W & M had their book published without trouble. Take the case of: “Alms for Jihad: Charity And Terrorism in the Islamic World,” by J. Millard Burr. The publisher (Cambridge University Press) has recalled all unsold books and asked libraries to destroy their copies, thanks to legal pressure from Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, part of the SAUDI LOBBY.

Just asking that an opposing point of view be present seems pretty tame don’t you think?

]]> By: rl http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388794 rl Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:10:48 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/14/walt-mearsheimer-talk-canceled/#comment-388794 Mearsheimer will appear on CNN to talk about this as part of a series on radicals in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Does this mean CNN isn't run by Zionists and the 'lobby'? Mearsheimer will appear on CNN to talk about this as part of a series on radicals in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Does this mean CNN isn’t run by Zionists and the ‘lobby’?

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