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May 20, 2026

American Zionism and the Myth of the Israel Lobby

The irrationality of the realists.

In conversation with Coleman Hughes, Walter Russell Mead explains the origins of American support for the Jewish state and dispels many myths about Zionism and the U.S.-Israel relationship. His analysis ranges from the attitudes toward the Jews of 17th-century Anglo-American Protestants to the irrationality of the realist professors of international relations Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. (Video, 60 minutes. Audio available at the link below.) 

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