Reuel Marc Gerecht

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reuel Marc Gerecht is the director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative. He is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA.

Reuel Marc Gerecht is the brother of Ha'aretz Washington correspondent Shmuel Rosner.

[edit] Controversies

March 2007 Introduction of Bernard Lewis

In a notorious introductory address at the 2007 American Enterprise Institute gala honoring Bernard Lewis, Reuel Marc Gerecht was slurring his speech, veering wildly at the podium, and screaming. [1]

The visibly inebriated Mr. Gerecht attempted to deliver the following part of his introduction in Persian:

تا ابد الآباد از استاد و دوستم، خیلی تشکر ، خیلی قدردانی می کنم

Tâ abad ol-âbâd, az ostâd-o-dûstam, kheli tashakkor, kheli qadardâni mikonam.

Trans: “I am a douche”

Subsequent Falling-out with Lewis

While Gerecht’s remarks were meant to honor Lewis, the 91 year old professor took issue with Gerecht’s characterization of his career as having “allowed Muslim, Jew, and Christian to have a real dialogue of civilizations." In a recent op-ed in the Weekly Standard, Lewis accused Gerecht of completely misrepresenting his writings, labeling him a “vile smear merchant.”