John Mearsheimer: How powerful is the Israel lobby?

We are joined by Professor John Mearsheimer, one of the world’s most influential political scientists. He is the Wendell Harris Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Professor Mearsheimer has written and lectured extensively about security issues and international politics. He’s the author of six books including The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt), which made The New York Times best seller list and has been translated into 24 languages. He’s been an outspoken critic of Israel’s genocide. “I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict,“ Mearsheimer wrote in December. “But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.“ Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah an