John Mearsheimer
person
Also written as: Professor John Mearsheimer
Involved in
- Jeffrey Epstein gave feedback on talking points to discredit Mearsheimer and Walt and used his extensive social network to circulate allegations of anti‑semitism against them.
- Dershowitz accused Mearsheimer and Walt of recycling “discredited trash” from neo‑Nazi and Islamist websites and of authoring a modern counterpart to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
- Mearsheimer told Drop Site that he was not surprised to see the emails because Dershowitz and Epstein were close and both have a passionate attachment to Israel.
- Mearsheimer said that the $10,000 kill fee was the fastest $10,000 they ever made.
- Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The New Republic, denounced the scholars for antisemitism, compared their perspective to that of Osama bin Laden, and warned that its logic revived an ancient idea that Jews manipulate gentile leaders.
- The Harvard Kennedy School published a working paper titled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in March 2006.
- Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated to attack John Mearsheimer over the Israeli lobby paper.
- The Chicago Council on Global Affairs canceled a scheduled talk by Mearsheimer and Walt in 2007 after pressure from pro‑Israel supporters.
- The Atlantic offered a $10,000 kill fee to Mearsheimer and Walt if the publication didn’t print the article.
Statements attributed to it
- If Nuremberg-style trials were held, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and their top aides would have been hanged.
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Origin: first recognised while reading Professor John Mearsheimer: ‘If we held Nuremberg-style trials, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and their top aides would have been hanged’ · 2026-09-01 06:44