Kenneth Stein, a professor of history at Emory University, has been associated with Jimmy Carter’s Carter Center from its founding. He was its first executive director, and its first academic fellow. He has just terminated his association with the Center because of Carter’s shameful new book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. The guys at Powerline have the whole story, but here’s the money quote from Stein’s own account of his resignation:
President Carter’s book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook.