{"id":56184,"date":"2025-11-14T03:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56184"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:58:05","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-panic-in-the-israel-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/14\/john-mearsheimer-on-panic-in-the-israel-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on Panic in the Israel Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/panic-in-the-israel-lobby\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 13 November 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d with Judge Napolitano. We talked about how Russia is winning its war against Ukraine with a smart strategy that works to Putin\u2019s advantage. We also discussed Ukraine\u2019s troubles, which are mounting by the day and are ultimately unfixable. And we talked about Israel, to include the moral depravity of a society that not only defends but celebrates soldiers who brutally raped a Palestinian prisoner. Finally, we discussed the desperate efforts of the Israel Lobby, especially Mark Levin, to counter Tucker Carlson\u2019s widely heard criticisms of Israel by portraying him as an enemy of the US, the antithesis of an America-firster. Of course, Levin is an Israel-firster who is trying to falsely portray himself as an America-firster.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZiezQfSt9Q?si=iPaHiQBjy7-02dXo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 13 November 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d with Judge Napolitano. We talked about how Russia is winning its war against Ukraine with a smart strategy that works to Putin\u2019s advantage. We also discussed Ukraine\u2019s troubles, which are mounting by the day and are ultimately unfixable. And we talked about [&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-56184","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\/56184","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=56184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56189,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56184\/revisions\/56189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}