You'll likely know this thread if you're an Issues veteran, but heres a good example of why people in the US are downright scared of the Israel Lobby. Even the supposedly objective Academic establishment cowers before it:-
http://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...ein-story.html (Intellectual Hypocricy! The Finkelstein story.)
Personally, I found this an astonishing story- and it continued to progress as the Thread was in progress. In destroying a career however, the Lobby created a Dissident- and a brave one at that.
The latest news- Norman Finkelstein, a Jew and the son of Holocaust victims, was arrested on entering Israel and questioned by Shin Bet.
This man is one of my Hero's- a very, very brave man.