As expected, the Israel Lobby has achieved yet another
kill, no not literally, just cost a man his job for doing research and putting it in print.
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The Lobby Strikes Back
Harvard study of Israeli lobby's influence costs the dean of the Kennedy School his job
by Justin Raimondo
The reaction to the Harvard University study by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, [.pdf] has been fury by the Lobby and its partisans - and a demotion for Walt, who, it was announced shortly after the paper's release, would be stepping down from his post as dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. As the New York Sun reports (via the Harvard Crimson):
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"Yesterday's issue of The New York Sun reported that an 'observer' familiar with Harvard said that the University had received calls from 'pro-Israel donors' concerned about the KSG paper. One of the calls, the source told The Sun, was from Robert Belfer, a former Enron director who endowed Walt's professorship when he donated $7.5 million to the Kennedy School's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1997. 'Since the furor, Bob Belfer has called expressing his deep concerns and asked that Stephen not use his professorship title in publicity related to the article,' the source told The Sun.".
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