# Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
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Publisher: Drop Site News · published 2025-11-25 · read 2026-09-12

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## Who is named (22)

- [Larry Summers](https://truthscore.com/entity/141a68ba)
- [Stephen Walt](https://truthscore.com/entity/1e5dbb35)
- [Jeffrey Epstein](https://truthscore.com/entity/1e6a5f26)
- [Epstein’s Yahoo! account](https://truthscore.com/entity/3472825e)
- [Wexner Foundation](https://truthscore.com/entity/37127f36)
- [Alan Dershowitz](https://truthscore.com/entity/3902bec6)
- [email cache](https://truthscore.com/entity/5904f88a)
- [London Review of Books](https://truthscore.com/entity/59b5c9a5)
- [Palm Beach Police Department](https://truthscore.com/entity/5e8c14c9)
- [Chicago Council on Global Affairs](https://truthscore.com/entity/6951acfe)
- [The Atlantic](https://truthscore.com/entity/730d202c)
- [Anti‑Defamation League](https://truthscore.com/entity/81ef59cf)
- [Debunking the Newest - and Oldest - Jewish Conspiracy](https://truthscore.com/entity/82c0ee3a)
- [Leslie Wexner](https://truthscore.com/entity/83c70ca2)
- [Bloomberg](https://truthscore.com/entity/995141d4)
- [House Oversight Committee](https://truthscore.com/entity/ab63296d)
- [Distributed Denial of Secrets](https://truthscore.com/entity/af0c706e)
- [Jeffrey Goldberg](https://truthscore.com/entity/b23debe3)
- [Harvard Kennedy School](https://truthscore.com/entity/baaa7705)
- [The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy working paper](https://truthscore.com/entity/ca1ef1bb)
- [John Mearsheimer](https://truthscore.com/entity/ce981285)
- [Drop Site News](https://truthscore.com/entity/d3df5bb4)

## What it added

- [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.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8fd05a3f)
  > In March 2006, the Harvard Kennedy School published a working paper, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” by influential political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
- [The paper ran in the London Review of Books and became the basis for a book published the following year.](https://truthscore.com/claim/89805bb0)
  > The paper, which ran in the London Review of Books and became the basis for a book published the following year,
- [The Atlantic offered a $10,000 kill fee to Mearsheimer and Walt if the publication didn’t print the article.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ed5aec76)
  > In an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year, Mearsheimer revealed that the editor of The Atlantic offered them a “$10,000 kill fee” if the publication didn’t print the article.
- [Mearsheimer said that the $10,000 kill fee was the fastest $10,000 they ever made.](https://truthscore.com/claim/81f85a5a)
  > Mearsheimer said, “That’s the fastest $10,000 we ever made.”
- [The Anti-Defamation League denounced the paper as an “anti‑Jewish screed.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/f01dd420)
  > the Anti-Defamation League weighed in to denounce what they called an “anti‑Jewish screed.”
- [The Kennedy School removed its logo from the paper and added a disclaimer distancing the institution from its arguments.](https://truthscore.com/claim/49d70290)
  > The Kennedy School removed its logo from the paper and added a disclaimer distancing the institution from its arguments.
- [Jeffrey Epstein gave feedback on talking points to discredit Mearsheimer and Walt and used his extensive social network to circulate allegations of…](https://truthscore.com/claim/4b48d020)
  > Unknown at the time, 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 the two scholars.
- [Emails from Epstein’s Yahoo! account were obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets and provided to Drop Site News.](https://truthscore.com/claim/aa738062)
  > Details of Epstein’s role … come from a trove of emails obtained by the non‑profit whistleblower organization Distributed Denial of Secrets and provided to Drop Site News.
- [Bloomberg conducted cryptographic verification on the email cache and said it strongly authenticated a portion of the emails, corroborated sources of important…](https://truthscore.com/claim/a3058f0a)
  > Bloomberg conducted cryptographic verification on the email cache that they said “strongly authenticated a portion of the emails; corroborated sources of important enclosures; and found no meaningful evidence of fakery,”
- [During the first week of April 2006, Epstein received multiple early drafts of an attack piece by Alan Dershowitz titled “Debunking the Newest – and Oldest –…](https://truthscore.com/claim/da624f59)
  > The cache shows that, during the first week of April 2006, Epstein received multiple early drafts of an attack piece by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz titled “Debunking the Newest - and Oldest - Jewish Conspiracy.”
- [Dershowitz accused Mearsheimer and Walt of recycling “discredited trash” from neo‑Nazi and Islamist websites and of authoring a modern counterpart to the…](https://truthscore.com/claim/5ed4d04d)
  > In it, Dershowitz … accused Mearsheimer and Walt of recycling “discredited trash” from neo‑Nazi and Islamist websites, accusing them of authoring a modern counterpart to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
- [Epstein responded to Dershowitz’s email with “terrific…congragulations (sic).”](https://truthscore.com/claim/45907842)
  > Epstein responded to Dershowitz’s email, “terrific…congragulations (sic).”
- [An assistant asked Epstein to help circulate copies of the attack piece, writing, “Jeffrey, were you going to distribute this for Alan?? If I should forward…](https://truthscore.com/claim/2276fab7)
  > A few hours later, Epstein received another message from Dershowitz’s email address, signed off by an assistant. The assistant asked Epstein to help circulate copies of the attack piece, writing, “Jeffrey, were you going to distribute this for Alan?? If I should forward this to someone in your office, pls let me know.”
- [Epstein replied in the affirmative, “yes I’ve started.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/95042420)
  > Epstein replied in the affirmative: “yes I’ve started.”
- [Epstein donated more than $9 million to Harvard between 1998 and 2008 and served as trustee and president of the family financial office of Leslie Wexner.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1b4b633d)
  > Epstein … had spent years cultivating relationships at the university, donating more than $9 million between 1998 and 2008, and positioning himself as a fixer and patron for high‑profile academics, including …
- [The Wexner Foundation donated nearly $20 million to the Kennedy School between 2000 and 2006.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d6e01c49)
  > At the time, Epstein served as trustee and president of the family financial office of billionaire fashion tycoon Leslie Wexner, which donated nearly $20 million to the Kennedy School between 2000 and 2006.
- [The Chicago Council on Global Affairs canceled a scheduled talk by Mearsheimer and Walt in 2007 after pressure from pro‑Israel supporters.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d34b1633)
  > The Chicago Council on Global Affairs canceled a scheduled talk by the pair in 2007, after pressure from pro‑Israel supporters.
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/69a2ed78)
  > Mearsheimer told Drop Site, “I’m not surprised to see these emails, because Dershowitz and Epstein were close and both have a passionate attachment to Israel.”
- [Walt declined to comment.](https://truthscore.com/claim/622889d1)
  > Walt declined to comment.
- [In 2005, Epstein came to the attention of the Palm Beach Police Department after a 16‑year‑old girl and her family reported a sexual assault two years earlier…](https://truthscore.com/claim/55bd2b95)
  > In 2005, Epstein came to the attention of the Palm Beach Police Department after a 16‑year‑old girl and her family reported a sexual assault two years earlier at his mansion on El Brillo Way.
- [On April 10, 2006, Epstein sent Dershowitz some information obtained by a private investigator to consider sharing it with the state’s attorney to undermine…](https://truthscore.com/claim/48405762)
  > On April 10, 2006, five days after Dershowitz published his response to “The Israel Lobby” working paper, Epstein sent Dershowitz, who was also his lawyer, some information obtained by a private investigator to consider sharing it with the state’s attorney to undermine testimony against him.
- [Epstein pleaded guilty to reduced state charges in 2008 in a plea deal that immunized unnamed co‑conspirators and served only 13 months in the Palm Beach…](https://truthscore.com/claim/089e86dc)
  > Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty to reduced state charges in 2008 in a wildly controversial plea deal that immunized unnamed co‑conspirators, and saw him evade federal prosecution. He served only 13 months in the Palm Beach County jail, with six days per week on 12‑hour work release outside the jail.
- [Disclosures from the House Oversight Committee show that Epstein and Summers continued to communicate up until Epstein’s death in 2019, including messages the…](https://truthscore.com/claim/dc18723f)
  > Recent disclosures from the House Oversight Committee show that Epstein and Summers continued to communicate up until the time of his death in 2019, including messages the previous year in which Summers sought his romantic advice regarding an individual who he said viewed him as a mentor.
- [Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The New Republic, denounced the scholars for antisemitism, compared their perspective to that of Osama bin Laden, and warned that…](https://truthscore.com/claim/82333c3a)
  > Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The New Republic, denounced them for antisemitism, compared their perspective to that of Osama bin Laden, and warned that its logic revived “an ancient idea spread by anti‑Jewish ideologues: that Jews, operating in the shadows, manipulate gentile leaders.”
- [In 2016, Jeffrey Goldberg was named editor in chief of The Atlantic.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a69fd285)
  > In 2016, roughly a decade after The Atlantic backed out of publishing Walt and Mearsheimer’s article in the face of public pressure, Goldberg was named its editor in chief.

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