Re: on Israel lobby in the US and foreign policy

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

quoting from the article that Anthony cites:

>On September 7, 2006, four days before Walt's scheduled arrival,
three tenured full professors—two of them from my own
department—denounced him in an open letter to the president of the
university, George M. Dennison. The letter appeared in the student
newspaper, the Montana Kaimin. Comparing his views to those expressed
in the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, they castigated Walt as the author of an ugly racist diatribe
and demanded that the university invite Harvard University law
professor Alan Dershowitz or some comparable defender of Israel to
offer a rebuttal. Failure to do so would "leave a dark stain on the
President's Lecture Series and the university itself."

>One of my critics told me before startled witnesses that he would not
rest until I had been stripped of my position of power, which
manifestly had corrupted me. Someone as insensitive to Jewish issues
as I was could no longer be entrusted to coordinate a university
lecture series. He initiated a campaign to bring about my dismissal.

> As the controversy over Walt's visit heated up in the campus newspaper during the next few days...<

the controversy "heated up"? bringing in the Protocols of the Elders
of Zion is pretty hot.

nuff said. This is the kind of thing I was referring to when I
referred to a "shit storm."

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) --  Karl, paraphrasing Dante.