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.

 “If Hitler were in the United States and wanted a platform from which to speak,… we would certainly invite him.” -- John H. Coatsworth

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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“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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With the winter semester over, the founders of Bnai Haman had an opportunity to sit down with John H. Coatsworth, acting dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and review with him the achievements of his first full term in charge.

[Edited for charity.  If you had to read everything he said, you'd be bored silly.]

Bnai Haman:  Dean Coatsworth, you personally are an expert on Latin American studies.  So how is it that you have such an interest in Iranian thugs, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

Demonstrating his wide character range as an "Acting" Dean, John H. Coatsworth portrays an ass during a recent interview with Bnai Haman. Amazingly, he is so gifted it was hard to tell that he was acting at all.

John H. Coatsworth:  Actually, I find Ahmadinejad has much in common with freedom fighters like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.  I admire all three leaders for their abilities to speak truth to power.  I always wanted to be president of a banana republic, but you know -- as they say, those who can't be personally murderous, teach.

BH:  Do you have any regret about inviting A-Jad to campus and supporting Richard W. Bulliet and Lee C. Bollinger in their invitation?

JHC:  I do wish Lee hadn't been so strident in his remarks prior to the speech.  A-Jad is really quite a nice fella, if you take the time to know him (and if he doesn't cut off your tongue).   As for Dicky Bulliet, well, that sorry publicity hound took so much credit for the A-Jad speech, when I was the acting dean.  

BH:  Do you support the writers strike now going on against the major movie and television production companies?

JHC:  Truth be told, I don't.  Heck, I'm still hoping to get a best acting nod from Hollywood for my star turn as a serious academic. Did you see me on Fox News?  I was brilliant.  My agent's phone hasn't stopped ringing. (Course it's me calling him all the time, looking for work.)

BH:  If there is an ideal role in life you have yet to play, what would it be?

JHC:  I always loved Pee-Wee's Playhouse.  I thought Paul Reubens was masterful.  When I'm done acting as a dean and professor, I think I'd like to try hosting a children's show and wacking off in the balcony of a porno theater.

BH:  Finally, were you serious about inviting Hitler to speak at Columbia if you could?

JHC:  Nah, I was misquoted.  What I actually said is that if Hitler were still alive, and if it were the 1930s before he murdered all those damned victims, and if I were still acting like an academic, I would have invited Hitler to teach at the campus.  I never really intended for him to speak.  Only to teach.  The media-controlling Zionists blew my remarks all out of proportion.

BH:  Thank you for your time.

JHC:  You're welcome.  (To himself: You fellas aren't Jews are you?) 

John H. Coatsworth, the Columbia University Dean who invited Iranian Murderer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus on September 24, 2007, needn't worry about receiving much in the way of criticism from dissidents in Iran.

As the following video demonstrates, A-Jad has a special means of silencing those who disagree with him.  To our critics who ask, why continue the fight even after A-Jad has spoken?, we reply: We speak for those who have no voice.

 

In defending Columbia University’s recent invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Dean John Coatsworth argued that Columbia would have also invited Adolf Hitler in 1939, but not in 1944, when the United States was at war with him. Fair enough. Coatsworth’s position maintained the academy’s principles of open discourse while not abandoning the values of patriotism.

But Coatsworth’s declaration spoke volumes in regards to the left’s worldview. Liberals still don’t accept the premise that we are at war with Iran. They think we’re at war with President Bush. Ironically, that’s why they attempt to make everyone fear him.

Travis Rowley
ProJo.com
December 12, 2007

From Powerlineblog.com
September 2007