Special To The Jewish Week
Anti-Semitism, the academy and the most bizarre book blurb around.
For a few days last month, it seemed that John Mearsheimer had walked straight into a scandal of his own making, with no way out.
Over the previous five years, the University of Chicago professor and co-author of the much-maligned book, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” had frequently faced the charge of anti-Semitism. Invariably, Mearsheimer indignantly dismissed this suggestion as monstrous.
And then Gilad Atzmon came along.
