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Podcast: Think Twice with Jonathan Tobin
Episode: Ep. 59: Walter Russell Mead: Believing Jews control everything is a moral, intellectual deficiency
Description: The notion that Jews are manipulating U.S. foreign policy against American interests is false but also the product of ignorance, explains Walter Russell Mead, the author of The Arc of a Covenant: The United Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People. He joins JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin this week to discuss how misperceptions of Jewish power are both an anti-Semitic trope and a misplaced belief in the centrality of Israel or Zionism. In fact, other nations and leaders are almost always pursuing their own interests.Even many Jews believe that supporters of Israel influence...