Carter stands by anti-Semitic book

Jimmuh Carter says his book has succeeded in its mission of prompting discussion. The disgraceful, failed president should consider facing reality: the book has prompted near-universal derision.

ABC News:

Jimmy Carter, whose new book has been attacked as slanted against Israel, received two standing ovations Tuesday as he answered critics during a much-anticipated talk at a historically Jewish college.

The former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner acknowledged to an audience at Brandeis University that "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" has "caused great concern in the Jewish community," but noted that it has nonetheless prompted discussion.

The uproar of several months recently prompted 14 members of an advisory board at Carter's international-affairs think tank, the Carter Center, to resign in protest.

The terms of his appearance had caused a controversy after he declined to debate Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a critic of the book.

Criticism of Carter isn't quite universal. One Joseph E. Lifschutz, unsurprisingly published in the Berkeley Daily Planet, is standing up for the peanut farmer:

We owe a debt of gratitude for Dan Spitzer’s contribution to the Carter book debate. But not in the way he supposes. He represents the typical conservative position. His letter is full of generalizations and non-specific attacks. Where is the evidence? Saying that Carter misrepresents Security Council resolutions is not evidence. How does he misrepresent? Merely saying so and faithfully quoting authority is not enough. His authorities represent the neo-con, pro-Israel Lobby line. Their Israel ally is the extreme reactionary wing of the Likud Party, led by Netanyahu. Mud slinging against our honorable former President is disgusting.

I don't want to sound too much like a child out for recess, but the "honorable former President" asked for it.