The following is reprinted in its entirety with permission from www.deanrotbart.com.  Rotbart is one of the founding members of Bnai Haman and remains active with the group. 

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 >>

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 are now only memories. Eight Yeshiva students whose only crime was that were Jewish, they were Israeli and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Eight young lives snuffed out by one lone follower of the ideals and tactics of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- a man given the honor of being invited to lecture on the once-proud campus of Columbia University.<< MORE >>

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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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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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.

Free-speech advocate Imad Mughniyeh (covering the mouth of TWA pilot.)

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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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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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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“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.

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Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard never met Lee C. "Stinky" Bollinger, Richard "Dicky" W. Bulliet or John H. "John-John" Coatsworth.

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!

Moe Howard	Curly Howard	Larry Fine
"Stinky" Bollinger	"Dicky" Bulliet	"John-John"

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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