Alan Dershowitz: Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has responded to the Mearsheimer-Walt paper "The Israel Lobby" in a 46-page rebuke called "Debunking the Newest - and Oldest - Jewish Conspiracy: A Reply to the Mearsheimer-Walt 'Working Paper'". Read the whole thing.

Dershowitz lashes out in his own methodical way, calling their paper "contemporary variations on old themes such as those promulgated in the notorious czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in the Nazi and America First literature of the 1930s and early ’40s, and in the propaganda pamphlets of the Soviet Union. In essence, the working paper is little more than a compilation of old, false, and authoritatively discredited charges dressed up in academic garb. The only thing new about it is the imprimatur these recycled assertions have now been given by the prominence of its authors and their institutional affiliations."