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The UNM Israel Alliance will be holding its kickoff spring semester meeting on Monday, Jan. 21 at 4 pm, at Einsteins Bagels on Central, across from the University. We’ll have a small sign at the table for newcomers.

If you are interested in supporting Israel at UNM, come join us! We’ll be planning for this upcoming semester, choosing officers, and getting to know each other. We’ll be having some fun and educational events this semester.

If you can’t attend the meeting, but would like to get involved, email lprovenc@unm.edu and we’ll put you on the email list and get you hooked up with the group.

The American Jewish Congress made a video commemorating the 60th anniversary of the UN approval of the partition, Resolution 181, that launched the State of Israel.

David Harris, the director of the American Jewish Congress, was invited recently to address the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin to respond to the appearance the previous month of Professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of The Israel Lobby. We present the text of his address here…

Last month, this Council was addressed by two American academics who recently authored a book entitled The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. The book, and the articles that preceded it in the London Review of Books and on the website of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, have received some attention both in the United States and Europe.

Let me assure you: I have no interest in selling books for Professors Walt and Mearsheimer. I’m not here to add to what some would describe as the “controversy” surrounding their book. I’m here because the Council graciously invited me to balance their perspective with a different one.

I have been asked to address this distinguished audience about the so-called Israel lobby in the United States—or, more generally, about the place of Israel in America. It’s my pleasure to do so.

The argument in The Israel Lobby is complex, and describing it here …