"we can hope that mainstream individuals and institutions will see it for what it is – a classical conspiratorial anti-Semitic analysis invoking the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control."
Why It’s Conflation
The paper was about a lobby: organizations that anyone can name and whose spending is public. Scholars write the same kind of paper about the gun lobby and the oil lobby. The ADL said this one was an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
What Actually Happened
Mearsheimer and Walt: "So if neither strategic nor moral arguments can account for America's support for Israel, how are we to explain it? The explanation is the unmatched power of the Israel Lobby."