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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

For other uses of "Israel lobby", see Israel lobby (disambiguation).
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
AuthorsJohn Mearsheimer
Stephen Walt
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
August 27, 2007
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages496 p.
ISBN0-374-17772-4
OCLC144227359
327.7305694 22
LC ClassE183.8.I7 M428 2007

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy[1] is a book by John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, published in late August 2007. It was a New York Times Best Seller.[2]

The book describes the lobby as a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction".[3] Mearsheimer and Walt decry what they call misuse of "the charge of anti-Semitism", and argue that pro-Israel groups place great importance on "controlling debate" in American academia. The book "focuses primarily on the lobby's influence on U.S. foreign policy and its negative effect on American interests".[4] The authors also argue that "the lobby's impact has been unintentionally harmful to Israel as well".[5]

Mearsheimer and Walt argue that although "the boundaries of the Israel lobby cannot be identified precisely", it "has a core consisting of organizations whose declared purpose is to encourage the U.S. government and the American public to provide material aid to Israel and to support its government's policies, as well as influential individuals for whom these goals are also a top priority".[6] They note that "not every American with a favorable attitude to Israel is part of the lobby",[6] and that although "the bulk of the lobby is comprised of Jewish Americans",[7] there are many American Jews who are not part of the lobby, and the lobby also includes Christian Zionists.[8] They also claim a drift of important groups in "the lobby" to the right,[9] and overlap with the neoconservatives.[10]

The book was preceded by a paper commissioned by The Atlantic and written by Mearsheimer and Walt. The Atlantic rejected the paper, and it was published in London Review of Books.[11] The paper attracted considerable controversy, both praise[12][13][14][15][16] and criticism.[17][18]

  1. ^ Mearsheimer, John J.; Walt, Stephen (2007). The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-17772-0.
  2. ^ "New York Times Best Seller List" (PDF). New York Times. 2007-09-23. Retrieved 2009-04-14. The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy was ranked 12th place on the non-fiction list for a total of one week.
  3. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) p.5
  4. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007)p.8
  5. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) p.9
  6. ^ a b Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) p.113
  7. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) p.115
  8. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) p.132
  9. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) pp.126-128
  10. ^ Mearsheimer and Walt (2007) pp.128-132
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference LRB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Essay Linking Liberal Jews and Anti-Semitism Sparks a Furor Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. By Patricia Cohen. The New York Times, January 31, 2007.
  13. ^ Backlash Over Book on Policy for Israel Archived October 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. By Patricia Cohen. NY Times, August 16, 2007
  14. ^ Of Course There Is an Israel Lobby Archived November 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Edward Peck, April 6, 2006
  15. ^ A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy Archived June 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Tony Judt, New York Times Op-ed, April 19, 2006
  16. ^ Paper on Israel Lobby Sparks Heated Debate Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Deborah Amos, National Public Radio, April 21, 2006
  17. ^ Clyne, Meghan. Harvard's Paper on Israel Called 'Trash' By Solon Archived September 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, New York Sun, March 22, 2006. Accessed March 24, 2006.
  18. ^ Tim Rutten (September 12, 2007). "Israel's lobby as scapegoat". Los Angeles Times.

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