{"id":55189,"date":"2025-09-19T06:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55189"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:04:54","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-the-israeli-threat-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/19\/john-mearsheimer-on-the-israeli-threat-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on The Israeli Threat to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 September 2025, I talked with Judge Napolitano on his show \u2014 \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d \u2014 about the impact Israel and its supporters are having on the United States, not just on the foreign policy front, but on the home front as well.<\/p>\n<p>We agreed that what Israel and its supporters are doing to maintain unconditional US support for Israel\u2019s murderous behavior is a deadly threat to liberal democracy in America.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, however, their ruthless behavior is undermining support for Israel in the US and fueling conspiracy theories about Israel, not to mention fostering real anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JGozKc9Obw?si=keSMoB0yNUJbzCls\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-israeli-threat-to-america\">John\u2019s Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 September 2025, I talked with Judge Napolitano on his show \u2014 \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d \u2014 about the impact Israel and its supporters are having on the United States, not just on the foreign policy front, but on the home front as well. We agreed that what Israel and its supporters are doing to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1054],"class_list":["post-55189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55194,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55189\/revisions\/55194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}