Columbia University's Day of Shame

Saying 'Yizkor' for Columbia Unversity's Lee C. Bollinger and His Reputation

2008-09-20T19:15:00Z

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 21^st 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 24^th 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 24^th, 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

2008-03-16T20:05:00Z

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.

FBI Alerted to Threat Against Bnai Haman and One of its Members

2008-03-15T19:06:00Z

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.

The volunteer group comprised of Columbia University alumni and concerned citizens, has been outspoken in its criticism of Columbia, its Board of Trustees, and members of the administration and faculty in the aftermath of the speech given on campus September 24, 2007 by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran.

The threat, which was directed to a specific a Bnai Haman volunteer, was received on the comments section a blog maintained by Bnai Haman.

Bnai Haman immediately contacted the FBI and provided the agency with full access to its computer logs and that of its Internet Service Provider.

The FBI said it is confident that it can trace the email threat back to a source computer and will investigate.

The sender of the email faces multiple possible federal criminal charges.

Bnai Haman said it takes all such threats seriously and will cooperate with law enforcement agencies to track and prosecute anyone who makes such threats.

Anyone with information on the threat is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles field office of the FBI at 310-477-6565 or visit its website at http://losangeles.fbi.gov.

They Look Just Like Columbia University Students, Only These 8 Are Dead -- Thanks Lee Bollinger!

2008-03-09T21:42:00Z

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.

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.

So many inside and outside the Ivy walls of Columbia want to believe that the Ahmadinejad speech is "old news." Move on, they urge. Get a life.

The kind of life, we presume, that the eight Yeshiva students dreamed of living -- only their dreams crashed head on with Ahmadinejad's funding of Hezbullah and Hamas and other terrorist outlets.

Ahmadinejad didn't directly kill those eight students, anymore than Hitler personally killed every innocent victim who perished in the Holocaust. But Ahmadinejad inspired the killer and in all likelihood funded him, whether directly or indirectly.

And, so too, did Lee Bollinger and Columbia University.

For all his book learning, what Bollinger can't compute is that Evil has no rationale. Evil knows no logic. There is nothing to learn from Evil other than that it needs to be obliterated -- not invited to campus to win the applause of truly stupid, stupid students and their 'I-Hate-America' professors.

So Bollinger got his 15 minutes of fame and assuaged his guilt by name-calling A-Jad. Whoopee. But the blood of those eight innocent students is on his hands and that of the entire Columbia University community. And it will not be erased. Not in 15 minutes. Not in 5 months. Not in an eternity.

Like the story of Haman, who sought to murder all the Jews of 6th Century Persia, the story of Ahmadinejad and his jackass Lee Bollinger will be told and retold for centuries to come.

That Bollinger is fated to be ridiculed and despised by all good people now and in the future is little comfort to the family of the students who died so that Ahmadinejad and Bollinger might be victorious in the short run. As people of faith, however, we must believe that both Bollinger and Ahmadinejad will get their due in the next life. Amen.

Ahmadinejad-Bollinger Related Masks for Purim Prove Popular, Even in Japan

2008-03-08T21:39:00Z

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.

Columbia University Wrestles with the Question of Which Holocaust Denier to Believe

2008-03-01T20:06:00Z

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.

Which terrorists should Columbia and Bollinger support going forward? Which terrorists should next be honored with a platform at the university?

Let us break this down; starting with Ahmadinejad, who is not only an avowed Holocaust denier, he actually hosted a global conference in Iran that drew a crowd of anti-Semitic paranoids just like himself.

Ordinarily, what a whacked out leader of Iran who denies the Holocaust says or does would be of little interest to sane people. But Bollinger and Columbia wanted their students to hear first hand from Ahmadinejad, so last September 24, they turned their campus over to the blood-drenched madman in the name of free speech and academic inquiry.

Ahmadinejad made no excuses for his Holocaust denials and used the event to blast western ideals, America, Zionists, and whoever else came to mind. (Back at home, Ahmadinejad enjoys torturing his own people, especially gays and women who dare be accused of immodesty, whether or not the accusations are true.)

Well Columbia and Bollinger just love providing free speech platforms to those who hate America. By contrast, the campus has run off military recruiters and other American patriots who had the chutzpah to love the United States or preach defense of its borders from illegal immigrants.

Now comes Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority (and himself a terrorist in diplomat’s clothing) who calls Israel’s response to daily bombardments of its civilian population “worse than the Holocaust.”

No one, not Abbas, not Ahmadinejad, not Bollinger and not Columbia seem to be bothered by the fact that the Palestinians in Gaza – which is no longer occupied – each day send rockets to kill innocent Jews across the border in Sedorot and Ashkelon. Just imagine if everyday the residents of Tijuana were shooting rockets and killing folks in San Diego!

Killing and maiming Jews is okay.

But when those damn Jews fight back and some terrorists and Palestinian innocents shed blood, well, it is worse than the Holocaust. Much worse.

Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas, who hides under a rock somewhere in Syria and slithers out periodically to proclaim the forthcoming demise of Israel, also describes Israel’s defense against his rockets “the real Holocaust.”

Moreover, Mashaal says that Israel exaggerates the Nazi Holocaust and uses it “to blackmail the world.”

And, pity, him, then there is Lee C. Bollinger.

Bollinger desperately wants to do the right thing and wants to invite the right terrorists to campus. He wants to make sure the truest of Holocaust deniers are given a platform at Columbia to insure the academic integrity of the campus. But whom to believe: Ahmadinejad the full out denier, or Mashaal and Abbas, who want to compare their misery to that of the Jews of Europe during World War II, but each of whom has a different version of how little the Jews actually suffered at the hands of the Nazis?

Let this be a lesson to all university administrators: There is always another evil tyrant just around the corner begging to borrow some of your campus’s credibility to promote his sick views. If you play favorites too soon, some of the best terrorists may be excluded from your future invitation rosters.

Choose your terrorists and genocidal maniacs wisely. It's a lesson Lee Bollinger has learned the hard way.

Bnai Haman Condemns the Assassination of Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh

2008-02-15T14:37:00Z

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.”

Unlike Ahmadinejad, who has openly called for the destruction of Israel, Mughniyeh worked behind the scenes, quietly, to achieve much the same ends. “Here we have two similar spirits using different methodologies to achieve their purposes,” Christianson said. “How instructive it would have been for students to have the chance to compare these two anti-Zionist, anti-American leaders and their methodologies.”

Among topics Mughniyeh might have addressed was the July 1994 bombing of the Jewish community offices in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people. Mughniyeh continued to be sought for his role in the attack until the day he died.

“We are sure students would have asked him to explain why he and Hizbullah chose to kill innocent Jews in Buenos Aires, if he and his clan are only opposed to Israel and Zionists,” Christianson said. “Moreover, we would have welcome the introductory remarks that Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger no doubt would have made for Mughniyeh, putting him down before giving him a worldwide stage to express his views.”

Bnai Haman called upon the United Nations and especially its High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, to protect other terrorists from assassination before they’ve had their opportunity to address students in the U.S. generally, and at Columbia specifically.

For more information, visit www.leebollinger-bnaihaman.com.

New York Giants Owe Thanks to 'Curse of Ahmadinejad' for Their Super Bowl 42 Triump

2008-02-04T04:23:00Z

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.

What is worse, however, is that the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, of which Kraft is a member emeritus and large donors such as Kraft, remained publicly silent. Deadly silent.

We will leave it to heavenly judges to decide whether the many good things that Kraft has done in his life are to be offset by his acquiescence in the matter of the genocidal A-Jad. But what is undeniable is this: Kraft is more likely to be remembered for this year’s utterly amazing Super Bowl loss than for his previous or future victories.

There once was a powerful and self-confident statesman in ancient Persia who – like Kraft – thought himself invincible. Haman’s plan was to murder all the Jews, just like Ahmadinejad’s current ambition. Both men failed to see that all their earthly powers didn’t amount to fingernail dirt on the cosmic plane.

Haman was hung on the very gallows he built for the Jews. Ahmadinejad, too, will fall to his own evil schemes. And as for Kraft, Bollinger, Coatsworth and Bulliet – not to mention the 22 members of the Columbia University Board of Trustees – well, we wouldn’t be betting on their winning any Super Bowls anytime soon.

Roosevelt Acquiescence Award Presented to Robert Kraft of New England Patriots

2008-02-01T17:10:00Z

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.

“Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, who history has demonstrated could have saved many, many thousands of Jewish lives during the Holocaust but chose not to, Kraft could have been publicly outspoken against the Ahmadinejad speech – both before and after -- but remained silent,” Bnai Haman said in conferring the Roosevelt award on Kraft.

Bnai Haman acknowledged the many worthy causes – both Jewish and non-Jewish that Kraft and his family have funded over the years. “In our playbook, however, victory in one arena doesn’t mitigate a moral silence elsewhere,” Bnai Haman said.

Historian Lucy Dawidowicz has noted that while Hitler lost World War II, his “War Against the Jews” was actually successful, thanks in part, to Roosevelt’s acquiescence. Likewise, while the Patriots may be a success on the gridiron and Kraft may be feted for his many charitable contributions, Bnai Haman says Kraft had the power to publicly and effectively ostracize Columbia for its invitation to Ahmadinejad but failed to use it.

Entire Columbia University Board of Trustees to be Remembered for A-Jad's September 24, 2007 Speech

2007-12-24T14:37:00Z

New York, NY (PRWEB> December 24, 2007 – On the three-month anniversary of the speech by Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the campus of Columbia University, a group of alumni and concerned citizens have inducted the university’s entire Board of Trustees into its exclusive membership society.

Bnai Haman, in a pre-Christmas meeting, voted unanimously to include all 23 members of the Columbia University Board among its 2007 inductees. They join Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, who introduced Ahmadinejad and supported his campus visit, as well as John H. Coatsworth and Richard W. Bulliet, two academics who made the formal arrangements for the September 24, 2007 Ahmadinejad appearance.

The speech by Ahmadinejad set off a firestorm of worldwide condemnation, although Bollinger, Coatsworth and Bulliet defended the invitation as an act of academic inquiry and the Columbia Board of Trustees offered support by consistently remaining silent on the matter.

“When we weighed all the evidence, and with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, we realize that the troika of Bollinger, Coatsworth and 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.

The new inductees, who have a dedicated web site at www.columbiatrustees-bnaihaman.com, are:

• Armen A. Avanessians – Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• A’Lelia Bundles – Author, On Her Own Ground
• José Cabranes – United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Stephen Case – Cohen & Company, LLC
• William V. Campbell – Apple Inc. and Opsware Inc. (Board member)
• Patricia M. Cloherty – Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC
• Kenneth Forde – Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Eric Holder – Covington & Burling
• Ellen Oran Kaden – Campbell Soup Company
• Ann F. Kaplan – Circle Financial Group
• Mark E. Kingdon – Kingdon Capital Management
• Marilyn Laurie – Laurie Consulting, Inc.
• Gerry Lenfest – Philadelphia Museum of Art (Board Chairman)
• Philip Milstein – Ogden CAP Properties, LLC
• Vikram Pandit – Formerly with Morgan Stanley
• Michael B. Rothfeld – Theatrical producer and private equity investor
• Joan Edelman Spero – Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• Esta Stecher – The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
• Kyriakos Tsakopoulos – KT Communities Corporation
• Savio Tung – Investcorp International, Inc.
• Faye Wattleton – Center for the Advancement of Women
• Richard E. Witten – The Orienta Group
• Dr. Clyde Y. C. Wu – Wayne State University School of Medicine

Bnai Haman chose its name, which translated from Hebrew means ‘Children of Haman,’ because like the evil Haman, a 6th Century Persian who plotted to kill all Jews, Ahmadinejad, too, has expressed the desire to wipe Israel and the Jews off the map.

Bnai Haman works to remind the world of the lessons learned by the Ahmadinejad 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 Three Stooges -- Bollinger, Bulliet & Coatsworth -- Continue To Make Fools of Themselves at Columbia U.

2007-12-20T05:45:00Z

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.)

Ahmadinejad Tapped to Replace John H. Coatsworth as Dean of Columbia's SIPA?

2007-12-07T16:48:00Z

What have Columbia University Provost Alan Brinkley and Vice President for Arts and Sciences Nick "The Dirkster" Dirks been up to?

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.

The Dirkster

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.

So Brinkley and The Dirkster, what about it?

Why not conclude your international search to replace Coatsworth sooner than later? Having allowed him to test the waters, and noting that he is a teacher, why not offer the post to Ahmadinejad himself? A-Jad is only 51. He hates George Bush. He knows the Middle East very well. The Columbia students seemed to like him. And now that he has officially abandoned his nuclear program -- (and I'm the tooth ferry) -- he's got extra time on his hands.

A perfect match. Dean Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Think of the additional honor it will bring Columbia.

Homeland Security Scrambles After Mysterious Odor Is Detected on Columbia University Campus (September 24, 2007)

2007-11-26T08:36:00Z

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.

Columbia U. Professor Richard W. Bulliet Adds 'Ratfink' To His Many Honors

2007-11-23T19:47:00Z

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 University on September 24, 2007.

"We received nominations from around the globe for Professor Bulliet," says the Grand Rat, high priest of The Ratfink Club. Among those submitting nominations for Professor Bulliet:

   Women in Iran who were stoned to death on suspicion of loose morals

   Men in Iran who were hung on suspicion of homosexuality

   Professors in Iran who enjoy zero freedom of speech

   U.S. solders who were maimed or killed in Iraq by insurgents using Iranian made weaponry

   Children in Israel who go to sleep every night fearing they will be nuked by Iran

   Armenians, Gypsies, and others who know the pain of genocide

"These victims have no voice, no podium, no 'academic debate' such as Bulliet happily afforded Ahmadinejad," the Grand Rat explains. "Until Bulliet meets the ultimate Judge of morality, this mark of Cain will have to suffice."

"One little, two little, three little centrifuges" - Sing Along Columbia University and Lee C. Bollinger (September 24, 2007)

2007-11-07T13:18:00Z

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 big that speech will loom if Ahmadinejad is one day able to nuke Israel. Or how about using his nuke threat to drive world oil prices even beyond today's $98 a barrel? Say to $500 a barrel? That would hold the entire world hostage to Iran's whimsy.

Oh, Lee Bollinger must be proud. He, alone, among major American university presidents had the foresight to invite Ahmadinejad to befoul his campus's reputation first -- before Iran could fully demonstrate what a historical tyrant it really is.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Lee C. Bollinger make a potent team.

Aliza Davidovit Tears Up Her Columbia Diploma to Protest Bollinger-Ahmadinejad Speech (September 24, 2007)

2007-10-24T15:30:00Z

The Devil Has Spoken At Columbia University (September 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T22:49:00Z

Though they speak of lofty ideals and with high-minded self righteousness, the administration and faculty of Columbia University have welcomed the devil, himself, to their campus in the name of so-called academic freedom.

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 will never -- never -- be able to wash this stain from their souls.

What fools! What dupes!

To think that an American University should ignore the victims of Ahmadinejad's tyranny and the threat he poses to world peace to offer him a platform to spout his lies and rhetoric is folly.

Bollinger proclaimed that his students and the world would learn valuable lessons from Ahmadinejad's appearance. And I think they did.

They learned that scholars such as Bollinger and Coatsworth can be colasally stupid. Even my non-college educated parents know full well that anyone who does the devil's bidding is no better than Satan himself.

I do hope that the souls of those who have been and will be terrorized by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come to haunt Bollinger and Coatsworth at night.

If anyone deserves the right to speak freely, it is they!

Columbia University is Complicit in All of Ahmadinejad's Evil Going Forward (September 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T22:48:00Z

The following email was sent to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Class of 1980 "listserv" on November 1, 2007 in response to an email about upcoming events at the J-School. The email is reprinted here with the permission of its author.

Irena,

As journalists, I think many of us recognize the temporal nature of headlines. Today's scandal passes and the world moves on. However, I am permanently stuck on September 24, 2007 when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to our campus and spoke at the invitation of our university president, Lee C. Bollinger. This is a day that I am honor-bound not to let any of us forget.

The vast majority of my father's family was burned in the crematoria of Auschwitz and Chelmno. My father, himself, was taken at age 16 to Auschwitz and witnessed the real-world implications of allowing genocidal maniacs to use democratic forums to promote their hateful views.

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.

Someone must speak for these uninvited. Someone must remember them. Someone must remind all of us that Ahmadinejad is not just another headline to be forgotten the next time Britney Spears is arrested for drunk driving.

I am writing to remind you that our University is complicit in all evil that Ahmadinejad perpetrates from September 24th on. There is an indelible stain on the soul of our school and we must never forget it.

I, for one, will not participate in any school events or donate further to the University until it realizes its moral failure and publicly acknowledges such. Each of you must chose for yourself whether or not to continue to support the university. But if you do, know the true price you are paying.

Dean Rotbart

MSJ-1980

In Nod to Free Speech, Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger to Invite 'Noose' Culprit to Speak (September 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T22:47:00Z

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)

2007-09-24T22:35:00Z

By: Paula R. Stern
Barnard/Columbia Graduate, Class of 1982
(Reprinted with permission from www.paulasays.com)

Columbia President Lee Bollinger and his counterpart at Barnard, Judith Shapiro, are not interested in freedom of speech when it comes to those who oppose the tenure of Joseph Massad and Nadia Abu El Haj. In those cases, we Barnard/Columbia alumnae/i are "outsiders." But outsiders were allowed to have a voice at Columbia last week when the university invited the President of Iran to speak. Ahmadinejad is well known for his remarks calling for the destruction of Israel and the denial of the Holocaust. Ahmadinejad is known to have the blood of American soldiers on his hands - for selling advanced weaponry used to target Americans and innocent Iraqis, for calling for the destruction of Israel. Bollinger called it an issue of freedom of speech, but that is an excuse. Ahmadinejad had a platform at the UN. He had a platform on 60 Minutes. He had a platform with the national press. He didn't need a platform at Columbia and it is to Columbia's endless shame that they rushed to give it to him.

There was no open microphone at the event - it appears that only dictators and anti-Semites have a platform at Columbia these days. So - following is a dialog that was denied:

Bollinger: Second, to those who believe that this event never should have happened, that it is inappropriate for the University to conduct such an event, I want to say that I understand your perspective and respect it as reasonable.

If the perspective was reasonable - that it was inappropriate to invite him, he shouldn't have been invited.

Bollinger: Fourth, to be clear on another matter - this event has nothing whatsoever to do with any "rights" of the speaker but only with our rights to listen and speak. We do it for ourselves.

Then why was there no open microphone to ask him questions? Why was he given the "right" to speak words that deny history, deny reality, that twist and corrupt...all on our ground, at a university that is supposed to be dedicated to honesty, scholarship, integrity and truth?

Bollinger: According to Amnesty International, 210 people have been executed in Iran so far this year - 21 of them on the morning of September 5th alone. This annual total includes at least two children - further proof, as Human Rights Watch puts it, that Iran leads the world in executing minors. There is more. Iran hanged up to 30 people this past July and August during a widely reported suppression of efforts to establish a more open, democratic society in Iran. Many of these executions were carried out in public view, a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party.

And so we ask again...why give this murderer, this supporter of hatred a platform?

Bollinger: In a December 2005 state television broadcast, you described the Holocaust as a "fabricated" "legend." One year later, you held a two-day conference of Holocaust deniers. For the illiterate and ignorant, this is dangerous propaganda. When you come to a place like this, this makes you, quite simply, ridiculous. You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated. You should know that Columbia is a world center of Jewish studies and now, in partnership with the YIVO Institute, of Holocaust studies. Since the 1930s, we've provided an intellectual home for countless Holocaust refugees and survivors and their children and grandchildren. The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history. Because of this, and for many other reasons, your absurd comments about the "debate" over the Holocaust both defy historical truth and make all of us who continue to fear humanity's capacity for evil shudder at this closure of memory, which is always virtue's first line of defense.

To give today's Hitler a platform is to add insult and hurt to the thousands of survivors that remain, and the tens and hundreds of thousands in the next generation who continue to suffer from that dark and horrible period. You shame them and Columbia, by allowing this man a platform from which to continue his denial. Why give this Hitler a platform?

Bollinger: Twelve days ago, you said that the state of Israel "cannot continue its life." This echoed a number of inflammatory statements you have delivered in the last two years, including in October 2005 when you said that Israel should be "wiped off the map." Columbia has over 800 alumni currently living in Israel. As an institution we have deep ties with our colleagues there. I personally have spoken out in the most forceful terms against proposals to boycott Israeli scholars and universities, saying that such boycotts might as well include Columbia. More than 400 college and university presidents in this country have joined in that statement. My question, then, is: Do you plan on wiping us off the map, too?

There 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.

Bollinger: According to reports by the Council on Foreign Relations, it's well documented that Iran is a state sponsor of terror that funds such violent group as the Lebanese Hezbollah, which Iran helped organize in the 1980s, the Palestinian Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. While your predecessor government was instrumental in providing the US with intelligence and base support in its 2001 campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan, your government is now undermining American troops in Iraq by funding, arming, and providing safe transit to insurgent leaders like Muqtada al-Sadr and his forces. There are a number of reports that also link your government with Syria's efforts to destabalize the fledgling Lebanese government through violence and political assassination. My question is this: Why do you support well-documented terrorist organizations that continue to strike at peace and democracy in the Middle East, destroying lives and civil society in the region?

Shouldn't you have gotten the answer to your question BEFORE inviting this little Hitler to speak at Columbia? Before you denied your students the freedom of speech to question him?

Bollinger: In a briefing before the National Press Club earlier this month, General David Petraeus reported that arms supplies from Iran, including 240mm rockets and explosively formed projectiles, are contributing to "a sophistication of attacks that would by no means be possible without Iranian support." A number of Columbia graduates and current students are among the brave members of our military who are serving or have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. They, like other Americans with sons, daughters, fathers, husbands and wives serving in combat, rightly see your government as the enemy. Can you tell them and us why Iran is fighting a proxy war in Iraq by arming Shi'a militia targeting and killing U.S. troops?

This, too, should have been asked BEFORE inviting this man to speak at Columbia. With blood on his hands, you have allowed this man to hurt and shame hundreds of Americans whose brave sons and daughters are fighting and dying in Iraq. This too will be your shame.

Bollinger: I am only a professor, who is also a university president, and today I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to express the revulsion at what you stand for. I only wish I could do better.

We, too, wish you had done better.
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