In his latest audiotape, Osama bin Laden exhorts Americans to read The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, who decry what they label the “stranglehold” that U.S. pro-Israel groups and their allies have on American politics. Gabriel Schoenfeld comments that these academics’ outlook, like that of other authors recommended by the al-Qaeda leader, “fits neatly with bin Laden’s own demented ideology.”