Saying 'Yizkor' for Columbia Unversity's Lee C. Bollinger and His Reputation
NEW YORK -- Its proponents, including Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and the Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, contended that having Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak on campus would be a big step in the direction of mutual understanding.
Instead, Bollinger and Columbia University stepped into a black hole of shame, from which there is no escape.
What has the passage of a year wrought?
Only a better understanding of just how misguided Bollinger, John H. Coatsworth (the SIPA Dean), Richard W. Bulliet (the professor who initiated the A-Jad invitation) and the entire Columbia University Board of Trustees were.
Columbia University was played to the max by Ahmadinejad, who basked in the credibility his appearance provided for his gay-bashing, women-stoning, anti-American, destroy-Israel agenda. Bollinger and Columbia University have been accessories to every action of A-Jad since September 24, 2007. And, Bollinger and Columbia University will go down in history as having been duped by one of the 21st Century's most evil leaders.
What else has time revealed about the 2007 A-Jad speech at Columbia? Like a politician who serves his or her entire career with distinction, and then is caught in a lurid scandal, Columbia’s biographers and obituary writers will forever associate the school with a man who openly calls for Holocaust II against the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
We strongly suspect that Columbia has paid a financial price, as well, for its embrace of A-Jad. We know alumni donors who’ve cut or eliminated their contributions to the school in the wake of the September 24th blasphemy. And really, there is no way to know which major domo donors who might have once considered a major gift to Columbia have reconsidered.
One year later A-Jad and his hate-filled regime are stronger and more menacing than ever. As for Bollinger, Coatsworth, Bulliet and the other vermin who disgraced themselves and their university, we see no signs that they’ve managed to redeem their tarnished reputations even an iota.
In Jewish tradition, one remembers those who have died each year on the anniversary of their deaths by saying a special Yizkor prayer and lighting a candle. This September 24th, many Columbia University alumni and friends of the school will be lighting a candle for Columbia University to commemorate the day its morality perished.
J-School Alumnus Threatened: Shares His Views and Details of FBI Investigation
I HAVE A STALKER: THE LATEST 21st CENTURY PROFESSIONAL ACCESSORY
I have a stalker (or perhaps more than one) complete with a freshly opened FBI case file. My stalker is posting threats on a website to which I contribute and using Wikipedia and perhaps other venues to generate misinformation about me.
I guess I should be honored. In 2008, if you are a journalist or you are outspoken on any topic -- I am both -- then I guess you are not doing your job unless the FBI is investigating at least one of your stalkers.
Mine is particularly disturbed by the fact that as an alumnus of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, I have helped organize a group of alumni and other concerned citizens to conduct an ongoing protest of the University's decision to invite and permit Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus last September 24th.
I've made no secret whatsoever of my involvement with this group, which calls itself Bnai Haman. Indeed, I have posted at the Columbia Spectator and other sites using my real name, unlike most of my critics and most Ahmadinejad-Bollinger supporters.
As anyone who knows me well already knows, most of my father's family perished during the Holocaust and he was interred at Auschwitz, so I'm quite familiar with the potential consequences of letting Ahmadinejad speak unchallenged at my alma mater.My stalker seems to feel that my affiliation with Bnai Haman is sufficient reason to make threats against me and to try and rewrite my role in the group. Some people will believe my stalker. Many people believe Ahmadinejad and share his view that this world would be a better place without Israel, which the Iranian leader wishes to wipe off the map.
I take my stalker serious. That is why I have provided the FBI with full details concerning his/her threat and why I believe my stalker stands a very good chance of being caught and prosecuted.
Although he/she may wish we lived in an Islamic state such as Iran, where force and terror rule, we still live in the United States where speech is free, except that which threatens the well being of another or libels him.
My stalker has done both.
Just to let him/her know that the FBI and I are very serious, we already think we have two of the IP Addresses he/she is using to make threats: 67.102.0.169 and 67.101.192.4. If these are your IP addresses, don't be too surprised if you get a knock on your door in the near future from an FBI field agent. These folks are very good at what they do. As am I.<< MORE >>
FBI Alerted to Threat Against Bnai Haman and One of its Members
Bnai Haman has been in contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation following receipt of an email threat against it and one of its founding members.
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They Look Just Like Columbia University Students, Only These 8 Are Dead -- Thanks Lee Bollinger!
Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia's Free Speech President, had the power to block Ahmadinejad's speech. But he did not. Bollinger maintained then and has yet to say otherwise, that bestowing upon Ahmadinejad the credibility that came with speaking at Columbia was a price well worth paying for the educational opportunity of hearing and questioning the madman directly. Ahmadinejad-Bollinger Related Masks for Purim Prove Popular, Even in Japan
More than 2,000 people have requested Purim masks depicting Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and others involved in his speech last September 24 on the campus of Columbia University. Bnai Haman, which plans a Purim Ball on March 20 featuring modern Purim masks, says it has received requests from as far away as India, Japan and Kazakhstan.
Las Vegas (PRWEB) March 8, 2008 -- People from as far away as the Republic of Kazakhstan have written or called Bnai Haman seeking to obtain masks for this year's Purim celebration.
The requests began pouring in on February 19, when Bnai Haman, a not-for-profit volunteer group of Columbia University alumni and concerned citizens, announced that it is planning an Ahmadinejad-themed Purim party to mark the September 24, 2007 speech by Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on campus.
At modern Purim carnivals, it is customary for children and adults alike to dress up as characters from the biblical book of Esther. Purim commemorates the reversal of fortune for the Jews of 6th Century Persia, who were facing extermination at the hands of evil Haman, a trusted adviser to the King. Thanks to the intervention of Queen Esther and her cousin, Mordecai, the King protected the Jews and instead hung Haman on the gallows he, himself, had constructed to kill Jews.
Last month, Bnai Haman said at its 2008 Purim Ball, to be held the evening of March 20, 2008, revelers will have the opportunity to dress like the biblical Purim figures or to wear masks representing those Columbia University officials most closely involved in the Ahmadinejad speech. Like Haman of ancient times, Ahmadinejad has publicly called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
"No one was more surprised than us when the requests started arriving, because we aren't selling or giving away masks," says a spokeswoman for Bnai Haman. "Our members are making their own masks for their own personal use."
Among the most requested masks are those of Columbia University's President, Lee C. Bollinger, who introduced Ahmadinejad last September, and Richard W. Bulliet, the Columbia professor who first invited the dictator to campus. Many requests have also been received for Ahmadinejad masks.
Bnai Haman said about 80 percent of its 2,000-plus requests have come from the United States; 10 percent from Israel and the remainder from countries throughout the world, including Australia, India and Japan.
"The Ahmadinejad-Bollinger speech was broadcast around the globe and its lasting impact can't be overstated," the Bnai Haman spokeswoman said. "The fact that individuals in the former Soviet East Block want to share in our Purim festivities demonstrates that the fight against evil knows no boundaries."
Bnai Haman works to remind the world of the lessons learned by the Ahmadinejad-Bollinger speech and to forewarn other universities and academics about the price to be paid for permitting dictators, terrorists and other villains to use their institutions as a platform for promoting hate speech.
The group maintains various information websites, including www.september242007.com.
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Columbia University Wrestles with the Question of Which Holocaust Denier to Believe
Palestinian leaders are not making life any simpler for Columbia University and its president, Lee C. Bollinger.
In recent days, both Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal have likened Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip to the Nazi Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were systematically and deliberately slaughtered.
The problem for Columbia and Bollinger, who welcome Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites to speak on campus (and to teach there whenever possible), is that the Palestinians are comparing what is going on now in the Gaza Strip to an event that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells the world never even happened.
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Bnai Haman Condemns the Assassination of Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh
Las Vegas, NV (February 15, 2008) -- Bnai Haman, a group of Columbia University alumni and concerned citizens, has posted a new statement on its web sites condemning the assassination of Hizbullah’s special operations chief Imad Mughniyeh. Mughniyeh was killed by a car bomb that detonated this past week in Syria, where he was in hiding.
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Unlike Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had the honor of speaking at Columbia University last September, Mughniyeh had not had the opportunity to address students and the media at a major American university before his death. Had he, Bnai Haman believes, the Hizbullah operative most certainly would have faced the same kinds of academic inquiries that Columbia’s students and faculty posed to Ahmadinejad.
“As Columbia made clear, students and faculty at democratic, free-speech schools can learn so much about the mind of terrorists by inviting them to speak on campus,” says Jed Christianson, a spokesperson for Bnai Haman. “Mughniyeh's credentials in this regard were impeccable and with his untimely death, Columbia and its community are robbed of the opportunity to hear from this influential Middle East leader.”
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New York Giants Owe Thanks to 'Curse of Ahmadinejad' for Their Super Bowl 42 Triump
And so it begins.
Robert Kraft, who continued to funnel large financial contributions to Columbia University even after the University invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to disgrace its campus, has tasted the power of the ‘Curse of Ahmadinejad.’
Standby. Kraft is just the first of many Columbia University apologists who will find their once good fortunes bankrupted.
In what many believe is the greatest Super Bowl upset ever, the New York Giants emerged victorious, trumping the previously 18-0 New England Patriots in the final seconds of the game following a truly miraculous 83-yard, 12-play drive. During that drive, Giants quarterback Eli Manning was swarmed under by Patriots defenders, only to emerge from the scrum to throw a game-saving pass to David Tyree, who caught the ball on the tips of his fingers and steadied it with his head as he fell to the ground.
Somewhere in heaven, the spirits of Mordechai and Esther are smiling broadly.
Don’t believe this relates to the Ahmadinejad speech? Don’t believe that Robert Kraft is now cursed? Be patient. In the months and years to come, you will likewise see the dreams and careers of other Columbia University perpetrators – including Lee C. Bollinger, John H. Coatsworth and Richard W. Bulliet – slip through their hands like the Super Bowl XLII trophy that Robert Kraft had oh-so-close to his grasp.
You see, Columbia University committed a crime against decency when it invited Ahmadinejad to speak on campus last September 24th. A-Jad is an avowed anti-gay, anti-women, anti-American, anti-Semite who dreams of nuking Israel and then America off the face of the planet.
The Columbia University administration, led by the deeply, deeply misguided Bollinger, invited A-Jad to speak on campus in the name of academic freedom. Bad enough.
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Roosevelt Acquiescence Award Presented to Robert Kraft of New England Patriots
On the eve of the SuperBowl, the owner of The New England Patriots has been named a recipient of the “Franklin Delano Roosevelt Acquiescence Award.”
Bnai Haman voted unanimously to confer the Roosevelt Acquiescence Award on Robert Kraft, owner and CEO of the New England Patriots since 1994. The group is actively engaged in reminding the world of the harm that follows from allowing those who preach hate and genocide – such as Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – to use well respected democratic universities as a platform.
Bnai Haman noted that Kraft, an alumnus of Columbia University and a trustee emeritus, went ahead and announced a major donation to Columbia’s athletic program even after the infamous September 24, 2007 appearance at Columbia of Ahmadinejad.
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Entire Columbia University Board of Trustees to be Remembered for A-Jad's September 24, 2007 Speech
“When we weighed all the evidence, and with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, we realize that the troika of Lee C. Bollinger, John H. Coatsworth and Richard W. Bulliet couldn’t have succeeded without the support of the Board of Trustees,” Bnai Haman said. “These 23 men and women must also be remembered for their role in the A-Jad speech,” the group said.
<< MORE >>The Three Stooges -- Bollinger, Bulliet & Coatsworth -- Continue To Make Fools of Themselves at Columbia U.
If they had, Moe, Larry and Curly would certainly have forfeited their moniker to the true three stooges still performing daily at Columbia University.
Not even Moe, Curly and Larry Could Compete With These Clowns!
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Stinky: I want Harlem. I deserve Harlem. I'll hold my nose until I get Harlem.
Dicky: There is more pornography today than ever, because we are no longer as agrarian as we once were and hence we can't sleep with as many sheep as our ancestors did.
John-John: I have invitations to speak out to Genghis Khan, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dylan Klebold and Slobodan Milosevic. Boy, oh boy, I hope they can come.
Stinky: Hey, Dicky, why did you blame me in the Washington Post for all of Columbia's woes?
Dicky: You knucklehead. Who did you expect me to blame, John-John?
John-John: Noogies on both of you. I'm the Acting Dean and you're not!
Stinky: Don't you get it, John-John? You're acting because I didn't want to give you the job on a permanent basis, you putz.
John-John: You're just jealous cause I got all the media attention for wanting Hitler to come to campus.
Dicky: I want Hitler, too. I really do. Please, oh please, can we invite him?
Stinky: Shut up, Dicky. Go find a camel somewhere and kick it.
John-John: You can't talk to Dicky like that, he's one of my professors.
Stinky: You moron. Dicky thinks you are a chump and so do I. Don't defend that dimwit.
Dicky: I can speak for myself. John-John, you are a moron.
John-John: Well good thing we've all got tenure. Better yet, the Columbia Board of Trustees is even dumber than we are.
Stinky: Heh, heh. Heh, heh. At least on that point we can all agree. Heh, heh. (Hey, what's that smell in here? Smells like rancid showmanship.)
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Ahmadinejad Tapped to Replace John H. Coatsworth as Dean of Columbia's SIPA?
Back in May, President Lee C. "Stinky" Bollinger asked them find someone capable of replacing Lisa Anderson as dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. The post, sometimes referred to on campus as the Dean of Pandering to Islamic Fascists, was handed on an interim basis to John H. Coatsworth, a relatively recent newcomer to campus.
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Coatsworth is 67 and an expert on Latin America. So what does he do shortly after being named Acting Dean in May 2007? He joins Professor Richard W. Bulliet in wooing Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to campus. President Bollinger heaps praise on both Coatsworth and Bulliet, as if getting a madman to speak about hate on the campus of an Ivy League school is something to boast about.
Okay. Coatsworth has had his 15 minutes in the limelight. He even went on Fox News and pined for the opportunity to have Adolph Hitler speak at Columbia,( if only the poor fellow hadn't succumbed years ago to the Zionist menace).
Oh how Columbia longs for the good old days when those pesky, irritant Jews weren't allowed to enroll or at least were shunted to a satellite campus.
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Homeland Security Scrambles After Mysterious Odor Is Detected on Columbia University Campus (September 24, 2007)
Homeland Security officials scrambled this week when sensors strategically placed throughout Manhattan detected what might be the fumes from poison gas or a major chemical leak.Thankfully, investigators quickly discovered that the stench was attributable solely to Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, who has smelled more and more putrid ever since he invited Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus on September 24, 2007.
Indeed, even though the reeking A-Jad returned home more than two months ago to stone some more women and hang some additional gays, the noxious nature of his visit lingers.
"In the name of academic freedom, we believe that Columbia University must not shy away from controversial speakers, even if they do smell like rotted Roquefort cheese," Bolling told WYNC radio in New York.
Nonetheless, those who study Bollinger most closely say that so strong is the odor emanating from his own foul thinking, he has taken to holding his nose even in private.
During the WYNC interview, Bollinger's voice sounded more like Lilly's Tomlin's "Ernestine" than the man who introduced A-Jad back in September. "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy," Bollinger snorted. It seems his abysmal leadership has gone to his head.
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Columbia U. Professor Richard W. Bulliet Adds 'Ratfink' To His Many Honors
HELL, CALIFORNIA (September 24, 2007): By authority of The Ratfink Club's board of trustees, we hearby induct Richard W. Bulliet, professor of History at Columbia University, into our exclusive society of folks - living and dead (sometimes it is hard to tell the difference) -- who in our constitutionally protected opinion deserve the designation of Ratfink.
Professor Bulliet, born October 30, 1940 (when Adolph Hitler was still in the process of killing 6 million Jews and millions of other innocents), secured admittance to The Ratfink Club upon his successful bid to bring Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the campus of Columbia ...<< MORE >>
"One little, two little, three little centrifuges" - Sing Along Columbia University and Lee C. Bollinger (September 24, 2007)
Reuters is reporting on November 7, 2007 that Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now boasting that having reached 3,000 centrifuges, "the train of the Iranian nation's progress is irreversible." We hope Columbia University's "Free Speech" President, Lee C. Bollinger, likes the sound of that!
Just imagine all the potential victims represented by the nuclear weapons Iran can make from the refined enriched uranium that the centrifuges will be capable of providing Ahmadinejad?
If Ahmadinejad, a terrorist and would be genocidal mass murderer, was a big coup for Bollinger as a speaker on September 24, 2007, just think how ...<< MORE >>
The Devil Has Spoken At Columbia University (September 24, 2007)
The devil is most amused.
The applause that members of the audience mounted loudly and often for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will echo through the annals of history in perpetuity alongside the anguished cries of Ahmadinejad's victims.
The deed is done.
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Acting Dean John H. Coatsworth have sealed their fates, too. Regardless of what they have done before or may yet achieve in their careers, they ...<< MORE >>
Columbia University is Complicit in All of Ahmadinejad's Evil Going Forward (September 24, 2007)
My dad's 5-year-old sister (gassed to death), his mother (gassed to death), his father (burned to death), his grandparents (gassed to death) and all but one of his uncles and aunts and cousins (burned or gassed to death) could not come to Columbia on September 24th to let their voices be heard. Nor could the Iranian women who Ahmadinejad has stoned, the gays he has murdered, the educators he has imprisoned and the millions of victims he has yet to destroy, but is actively working to eliminate.
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In Nod to Free Speech, Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger to Invite 'Noose' Culprit to Speak (September 24, 2007)
Students, faculty and administrators of Columbia University are alarmed that someone hung a noose on the door of a respected African-American professor, Madonna Constantine. Police are treating the incident as a hate crime.Lee C. Bollinger, president of the University, asked his staff to aid in the investigation, so that he could invite the perpetrator to speak on campus and explain his hateful message and actions in an academic setting.
"Since Hitler is no longer available and Amadinejad has already spoken, I want our students to have the chance to hear from this scummy scoundrel," Bollinger said in a news release.
Bollinger further promised that he'd give the nooseman a public dressing down before providing him an open forum to spout his message of hate.
While Professor Constantine told news outlets covering the story that she found the incident "very personal and very degrading," Bollinger said the feelings of all victims matter not. "What counts," Bollinger said, "is that in America, everyone from the corner grocer to the corner cannibal has his or her opportunity to besmirch the reputation of our campus."
A Dialog with Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (September 24, 2007)
These are mere words, President Bollinger, mere words. The fact is that Columbia has several people on tenure, or up for tenure, that say and feel the same as Admadinejad. Nadia Abu El Haj spouts the same lies and denies Israel's historical past in an attempt to undermine its legitimate place among the family of nations. You invite the devil, you condemn the evil, but you ignore the lies and hypocrisy that already lives at Columbia.
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Columbia University Disgraced Itself This Week Beyond Repair
But Columbia's decision to host Ahmadinejad on campus was not of a piece with its previous moves. The problem with the decision was not that it exposed Bollinger and his colleagues as hypocrites. Nor was the principle issue their obvious left-wing political bias. Whether or not Ahmadinejad, who denies the Nazi Holocaust and is gunning for a new one has a right to express his views is similarly not the main issue raised by their move.
THE PROBLEM with Columbia's action, the reason that there can be no moral justification for the university's decision, is because by inviting ...<< MORE >>
Bnai Haman Vows To 'Never Foget' The Shame of Lee C. Bollinger and Columbia University
Lee C. Bollinger and Columbia University Want $100 Million for (Iranian) Athletes?
What in the world is the Chairman of the Board of Intuit and the owner of the New England Patriots giving money to Columbia University for? Are they hoping to start an athletic program in Iran?
The kickoff, which came at a special ceremony in Low Memorial Library on the eve of Columbia’s Homecoming weekend, saw the announcement of the two leadership pledges made to The Columbia Campaign for Athletics: $10 million from University Trustees Chair Bill Campbell ’62CC and $5 million from Robert Kraft ’63CC. Campbell, the Chairman of the Board of Intuit, is a former football captain and head football coach at Columbia; Kraft, chairman of The Kraft Group and owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots, played football for the Lions.
“The effort made by Columbia student-athletes enriches their own educational experiences even as it brings us closer as a university community,” said President Lee C. Bollinger. “This campaign aims to make participation in athletics as meaningful and successful as possible.”
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'Theater of the Absurd' Starring Lee C. Bollinger and Columbia University
Arguably, there are three lessons to be learned, each corresponding with the acts in the Theater of the Absurd, and each with a lesson anchored in the rule of law; more particularly, in the disregard of the rule of law.
First, President Ahmadinejad should have been declared an inadmissible person and placed on the "United States's Watchlist" of persons barred from entering the country. For American law excludes from entry any person who has engaged in, or incited to, terrorist activity, ...<< MORE >>
Why Ahmadinejad Loves New York (and Columbia University)
Of course, students and faculty in the hall jeered many of his comments, while protestors outside denounced him as the new Hitler. And Columbia University president Lee Bollinger — clearly stung by criticism of the institution for hosting Ahmadinejad — used his introduction to excoriate the Iranian leader as everything from a "cruel and petty dictator" to "astonishingly uneducated." But all of this was merely grist for Ahmadinejad.
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ROTC Should Have A Place At Columbia University
I believe this isn’t true. A four-letter word comes to mind: ROTC.
ROTC isn’t allowed on the Columbia University campus. Students have to attend classes at other colleges in New York City if they partake in it.
Inviting someone who is anti-American, who denied the Holocaust, who claims there are no homosexuals in Iran (which ironically is the same reason ROTC isn’t allowed on campus, because of discrimination against gays and lesbians) is enlightening, but having ROTC on ...<< MORE >>
Ahmadinejad Walks Away From Columbia University with a Win
Bollinger's remarks may have taken him off the hook with his domestic critics, but when it came to the international media audience that really counted, Ahmadinejad already had carried the day. The invitation to speak at Columbia already had given him something totalitarian demagogues -- who are as image-conscious as Hollywood stars -- always crave: legitimacy.
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Dean of Columbia University Law School: "He Should Not Be Invited"
Dean, Columbia Law School
Statement
9/24/07
McCain is 'Astonished' and 'Astounded' By Columbia University's Hypocrisy
Meanwhile, Columbia University's belief in free speech does not extend to Reserve Officers' Training Corps units being allowed on their campus to attract outstanding young men and women to serve in the military."
U.S. Senator John McCain
Statement
9/24/07
Columbia University's Lee Bollinger is 'Naive Beyond Expression'
The absurd world of the academic left does not seem capable of imagining that skilled propagandists are at work for the other side, and that Ahmadinejad's non-answers to the questions posed to him will benefit him and his regime. They are naive beyond expression.
Hugh Hewitt
Syndicated Radio Host
9/24/07
'An Effete Mob Boss' -- Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger
But this is different. Bollinger - to the applause of some and the reluctant admiration of many - has taken advantage of the sacrifice of our men and women under arms verbally to slap Ahmadinejad around.
He forgets that the only thing holding Ahmadinejad in check is our military power (which, in turn, is deployed only by our civil authorities). His performance, however skilled, was illusory and narcissistic, both for himself and for his admiring audience, precisely because Bollinger and his cultured admirers deliberately forget that it is not human ideals that defeats human nature, but human ideals ...<< MORE >>
The School Yard Name-Calling of Columbia University's Lee Bollinger
The president’s irrelevant U.N. speech was a bad combo with the schoolyard name-calling of Lee Bollinger. Even some in the anti-Ahmadinejad audience gasped a bit as Columbia’s president gave the meanest introduction in the history of introductions — one that only managed to elevate the creep sitting on stage with his thugs. Once you’ve made the decision to invite a tyrannical leader, you can’t undo it by belittling him in public. Universities are supposed to be places where you can debate and hear dissenting voices; it would have been far better just to hand the mike to the ...<< MORE >>
Would Columbia University Host A Speaker From the KKK?
“I was glad to hear how strongly he [Lee C. Bollinger] condemned him [A-Jad],” he added. “But I don’t think it makes up for the invitation. With someone who denies the Holocaust, who wants to destroy Israel and to turn the Western world into an Islamic caliphate, there is not room to have discussion. It is like discussing with the Ku Klux Klan whether blacks are inferior.”
Elliot Mathia, Director of Hasbara Fellowships
New York Times
9/26/07
Israel's Shimon Peres Says Columbia University Provided 'A Platform to the Greatest Lies in the World'
"I am very much in favor of freedom of expression," Peres told reporters..., "but what happened at Columbia University was giving a platform to the greatest lies in the world. Everyone knows that Iran is building an atomic bomb and is a hotbed of world terror."
Addressing remarks by the university's president, Lee Bollinger, who called Ahmadinejad a "petty and cruel dictator" but said he would have invited Hitler to speak, Peres said that "even Chamberlain and Hitler met for diplomatic talks, and behind all those nice words was genocide and one of the worst atrocities humanity has ...<< MORE >>
Columbia University's Lee Bollinger's Bollixed Efforts
And things didn't look any rosier for Mr. Bollinger after he attempted to triangulate by introducing the Iranian President to his students as a "petty and cruel dictator," "simply ridiculous" and "either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
The conventional wisdom is that Mr. Bollinger was trying to placate angry Columbia alumni by lambasting Mr. Ahmadinejad after rolling out the red carpet for him. Either cancelling the visit or resigning his post would ...<< MORE >>
Columbia University's 'Blunder' Was A-Jad's 'Coup' -- Ed Koch
All in all, it was a fiasco for America and a blunder by Bollinger, as well as a coup for Ahmadinejad. His goal was not to respond to Bollinger, the Columbia students or Americans seeing him on television. His goal was to talk over their heads to the Islamic world and its terrorists and show how he bearded the Columbia lion in its own den.
President Bollinger, as an encore, why not invite Hugo Chavez? I think he'd come. You could provide him with a ...<< MORE >>
'In His Narcissitic Pomposity' - Lee C. Bollinger of Columbia University
Everybody wants to get in the act these days. Nobody wants to be ignored. And the Hell with Warhol. Fifteen minutes is way too short.
What other possible explanation is there for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's invitation to speak ... excuse me, answer questions ... at Columbia University than to make its relatively obscure president << MORE >>
Will the Students of Columbia University Have to Face A-Jad Again on the Battlefield?
So there is Adolf Hitler on our imagined stage, ranting about the soon-to-be-fulfilled destiny of the Aryan race. And his audience of outstanding Columbia men are mostly appalled, as they should be. But they are also engrossed, and curious, and if it occurs to some of them that the man should be arrested on the spot they don't say it. Nor do they ask, "How will we come to terms with his world?" Instead, they wonder how to make him see "reason," as reasonable people do.
In just a few years, some of these men will be rushing ...<< MORE >>
Columbia University's Lee Bollinger Knows He's In Trouble
Bollinger did this because he knows he's in trouble — that many Americans believe Bollinger himself is a villain.
That's because the president touts freedom of speech, but took weak action against the Columbia students who threatened the leader of the Minutemen. — You remember that. And Bollinger has supported the banning of ROTC on campus. Does that sound like freedom of speech to you?
Bill O'Reilly, Fox News
Talking Points Memo
9/25/07
Columbia University Should Have Ignored A-Jad
All things being equal, Columbia would have done better to ignore him, instead of feeding the media circus that serves his purposes. It's not as ...<< MORE >>
Haman & Hitler Would Feel Welcome on Lee C. Bollinger's Columbia University Campus
``I think it is disgusting that Columbia is having this Haman, this Hitler, speak here,'' said Harv Hilowitz, referring to an ancient Persian official who ordered the killing of Jews and to Adolf Hitler, who led Germany during the mass murder of Jews during World War II.
Hilowitz, a graduate of Columbia's Teacher's College who traveled two hours from Kingston, New York, to protest outside Columbia, said, while waving an Israeli flag, that freedom of speech shouldn't be afforded to ``dictators'' like Ahmadinejad.
Janine Zacharia and Henry Goldman
Bloomberg News
9/24/07
Columbia University and Lee C. Bollinger Treat Ahmadinejad Better than the 'Minuteman'
It would “impoverish public debate” to exclude controversial speakers like Ahmadinejad, Bollinger said.
But apparently it did not “impoverish public debate” to have a representative of the Minuteman organization disrupted and shouted down with impunity at this same Columbia University earlier this year. The “courageous” Bollinger did nothing to punish those students who used storm-trooper tactics to silence a point of view they did not like.
Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist
10/2/07
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