In this video, world-renowned political scientist and international relations scholar Prof. John Mearsheimer discusses the new book by investigative journalist Eli Clifton and political scientist Ian Lustick, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, and compares its central arguments with his own influential 2007 book on the Israel lobby, co-authored with Stephen Walt.
What has changed since then – and what has not? Mearsheimer examines why the public debate over Israel in the United States has shifted so dramatically, the role of the internet and alternative media, and the methods used by the Israel lobby to preserve its political influence. He also discusses money, elections, universities, accusations of antisemitism, and what all of this could mean for the future of American democracy and relations between Washington and Israel.
This video was produced by John Mearsheimer and published on his YouTube channel on the 9th of September, 2026.
To read the transcript of the interview: Episode 7: A Must Read Book on the Israel Lobby
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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