<p>So what do you guys think of the recently released paper by the Dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the highly acclaimed professor at the University of Chicago? They cite the enormous influence of the AIPAC lobby and how pro-Israel entities control the media so well that they stifle all opposing arguments and don't allow a rational debate in American society. </p>
<p>Israel's Lobby and American Foreign Policy:</p>
<p>I think the paper was a brave piece of academic work that clearly tries to combat the pro-Israel lobby's stranglehold over the media. I always found it weird that whenever people try to criticize the international human rights violations of Israel they get labeled as an anti-semite. </p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that there is more freedom to criticize Israeli treatment of Palestinians within Israel itself than in the United States. How strange is that?</p>