Carter Accused of Plagiarism
With the resignation of Prof. Kenneth Stein from the Carter Center, major media outlets are beginning to pick up on the controversy surrounding Jimmy Carter’s new book.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Harsh allegations over President Carter’s new book on Israel and the Palestinians came into sharper focus Thursday when a former top aide to Carter said the book appeared to contain maps that were “unusually similar” to those in an earlier book. . . .
“It appears that at least two maps that came out of the Carter book were or are very closely similar, or unusually similar, to maps that were produced and published in Dennis Ross’ book ‘The Missing Peace,’ ” Stein said.
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Stein said the former president had come to speak to his class as recently as last month. Mr. Stein declined to detail all the inaccuracies he found, saying he was still documenting them for a planned review of the book; but he did offer a few examples.
Mr. Carter, he said, remembers White House staff members in 1990 being preoccupied by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait when the former president tried to describe to them talks he had had with Middle Eastern leaders. But the White House briefings occurred in the spring, Mr. Stein said, and the invasion of Kuwait was not until August. . . .
Mr. Stein also said he had been struck by parts of Mr. Carter’s book that seemed strikingly similar to a work by a different author, but he would not disclose the details.
“There are elements in the book that were lifted from another source,” Mr. Stein said. “That other source is now acting on his or her own advice about what to do because of this.”
According to the Washington Post, Stein
said accounts in the book about meetings he had attended with Carter between 1980 and 1990 had left out key facts in order to “make the Israelis look like they’re the only ones responsible” for the failure of peace efforts.
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