Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

If you go to the Foreign Policy website, you see the new magazine cover with the giant question: "Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power?" This is of course a response to Walt & Mearsheimer, who are given the last word in an FP roundtable.

This is amazing. When Walt & Mearsheimer came forward in March in LRB, they were chopped down immediately by Alan Dershowitz and Eliot Cohen as "anti-semitic." Dershowitz said they had "destroyed their professional reputations." Now here they are with their professional reputations in tatters—on the front of Foreign Policy?! FP was acknowledging the fact that these men's ideas are simply too important, and too many people agree with them, not to be taken on fairly.  read more »