University of Chicago Students Call On Anti-Israel Prof Mearsheimer to Retire
I rise in defense of the University of Chicago.
For all the pontificating on John Mearsheimer who spoke without knowing, it is staggering the number people who are ignorant of the University of Chicago. I am a student here, and I have also actually written for Counterpoint, and know the editors and contributors well. To say that their writing is uncommonly clear is to do a disservice to the University, where actually, this type of thinking is quite common. Furthermore, taking nothing away from the Counterpoint writers, but there is absolutely no courage required to stand up for what you believe at UChicago. I have been many places, both conservative and liberal, and this is by far the easiest place to express your opinion.
None of this is to discuss whether or not Mearsheimer is an anti-Semite, which frankly only God knows what’s in his heart. However, I will say this, he is neither a hippie nor a liberal, and if you would bother to pick up his books both before and after Israel Lobby, you would know that. Mearsheimer may be a bigot, and he can be rightly condemned for his bigotry, and he is certainly wrong about the role Israel (and pro-Israel lobbyists) play in American foreign policy, but conservatives do themselves no service when they assume that all academics, especially those who they disagree with, are liberals.
