Like most Universities, Columbia University's library system maintains lists of resources that students might find useful when doing research projects. One of their sections is a section for "Middle East & Jewish Studies", and under that list is a section about Israel. So there are links to Israeli government sites like the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Bank of Israel. There are links to American government resources like the CIA World Factbook and the State Department Report on Human Rights. And there are links to Israeli media organizations like GLOBES and Ha'aretz.
And nestled toward the top is - you guessed it - "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy". Why is Walt and Mearsheimer's testament to the cognitive failures of realism in there? Why is it the only paper about American domestic politics, in a page devoted to links about Israel itself? It really sticks out like a sore thumb - as near as we can tel, it's the only link to an actual paper, rather than to a site. We would be very interested to know how this random paper found its way into a list of places on the web that talk about Israel. Because apparently if you're going to know anything about Israel, Columbia University thinks that you should know that they control the United States. It's like they're not even trying any more.
[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]
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