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Lee Bollinger Sends Get Well Wishes to Iran's Ailing Ahmadinejad

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, hearing news about the ill health of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has wired the ruthless dictator with his wishes for a full and speedy recovery.

"My dearest friend, I want to express my best wishes for a full recovery and let you know that all of us here at Columbia who value free speech are praying that you will soon be able to resume your regular diet of bashing gays, Jews and Americans," Bollinger wrote.

Bollinger's office confirmed that the University president and trustee believes the Columbia community benefits from hearing the thoughts and plans of brutal killers such as Ahmadinejad. It's the same reason, a spokesman noted, that Bollinger sent Cuban leader Fidel Castro a Teddy-Gramm when he fell ill.

"Good, honest, peace loving people do not need our best wishes when they are ill," the spokesman noted. "But if Lee Bollinger doesn't reach out to bullies such as A-Jad, who will?"

Sources close to the Columbia University Board of Trustees say that should Ahmadinejad succumb to his illness, the University may name one or more campus facilities in his honor as a reminder of the importance of giving a platform to hateful world leaders.
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Posted by Lest We Forget at 10/24/2008 11:41 AM | Add Comment

One Year Later, the Ahmadinejad-Bollinger Speech Remains a Cancer on Columbia’s Soul

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.


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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/20/2008 11:51 AM | Add Comment

2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners Include Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Lee C. Bollinger

Who among this year's class of Pulitizer Prize winners has the guts, the class and the wisdom not to accept their award from Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia Unveristy, which administers the competition?

Will Walt Bogdanich, a New York Times investigative reporter and a three-time winner, have the moral clarity to say, "No. Not from Bollinger"?

How about Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily, who won for editorial cartooning; or Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post, cited for his newspaper commentary?

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 4/10/2008 7:26 PM | Add Comment

The Ahmadinejad-Bollinger-Mashaal-Carter Axis

Now comes word that Jimmy Carter plans to meet later this month in Syria with the exiled head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal.

Mashaal, of course, is a finalist alongside Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the global competition to be named "Most Reviled Terrorist on Earth."

We're pretty sure that Carter could save himself the schlep all the way to Syria if the U.S. State Department would simply extend to Mashaal the same courtesy if offered Ahmadinejad and let Mashaal speak at Columbia University and be publicly pandered to by Carter there.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 4/10/2008 3:57 AM | Add Comment

Look Who Crawled Out of His Hole?

Look who we ran into on a recent expedition to follow the trail of Ahmadinejad-related rat droppings!  It is none other than Richard W. Bulliet, he who baited the Iranian murderer to Columbia University in the first place. Bulliet in person is pretty much like what we'd seen on TV and read about in newspapers: pitiful. Only, we don't have an ounce of pity for the aging terrorism sympathizer.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 4/6/2008 8:25 PM | Add Comment

Bnai Haman Member Writes About His Stalker and the FBI Investigation

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 >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/16/2008 12:57 PM | Add Comment

FBI Notified of Threat Made 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.

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.



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Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/15/2008 11:51 AM | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger, Controversial Columbia University President, Dead at 61

New York, NY -- Lee Carroll Bollinger, the controversial president of Columbia University and a distinguished legal scholar, died yesterday afternoon of a massive coronary attack as he prepared to meet with the school's Board of Trustees.

Paramedics worked feverishly for more than one hour to resuscitate the 61-year-old educator, but he was pronounced dead on the scene before he could be transported to the nearby Columbia University Medical Center.

In a statement, William V. Campbell, chairman of the University's Board of Trustees, said that "all of us at Columbia have lost a great leader and friend in Lee." Campbell added that "although Lee's tenure here was enveloped in controversy and acrimony, the Board always supported him and felt he had his best interests at heart in all of the decisions he made."

Bollinger become president of Columbia in June 2002, after serving as president of the University of Michigan since 1996.

While the Santa Rosa, California native had been involved in various legal and policy controversies throughout his professional career -including standing at the center of two cases before the United States Supreme Court - Bollinger became a global figure only after he permitted Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus on September 24, 2007.

Ahmadinejad's speech, and Bollinger's biting introduction of him, made Bollinger the target of criticism from many quarters.  Jewish groups and others felt Bollinger should not have permitted Ahmadinejad to speak on campus, given the Iranian's record of gross human rights violations and Holocaust denial.

Others were outraged by Bollinger's introduction, which they said was unbecoming, given that Ahmadinejad was speaking at the express invitation and with the approval of Columbia and Bollinger.

While others at the University also took heat for the Ahmadinejad-Bollinger speech, as it came to be known, Bollinger alone bore the brunt of the blame.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/14/2008 10:21 AM | Add Comment

Under Pressure from Some at Columbia University, Craigslist Removes Controversial Post


New York, NY (March 16, 2008) --  Craigslist, the popular online classifieds and forums site, has removed a post from its local news forum after some Columbia University professors flagged it as inappropriate.

The post, which can still be viewed at www.ahmadinejad-bollinger.com, attempted to alert Columbia University and its controversial president, Lee C. Bollinger, as to how history is likely to judge them in the wake of last September's speech on campus by Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/14/2008 10:20 AM | Add Comment

Where Did Jesus Pray? Certainly Not at the Jewish Temple Where He Claimed!

Here is a news items that really ought to get the juices of Columbia University Professor Richard W. Bulliet flowing. Bulliet, it seems, is very partial to weirded out Islamic madmen. Well you can add Sheikh Raed Salah to his list of soulmates.

According to The Jerusalem Post, Salah called a news conference today in Jerusalem to publicly deny that there ever existed a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. [He didn't explain how that big stone Wall, sometimes called the Western Wall, happened to mysteriously crop up. Nor did he offer an explanation of why it is called ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/10/2008 3:46 PM | Add Comment

For Ahmadinejad-Bollinger, 8 Is Not Enough! Let's Kill All the Jews! Then the Gays, Too!


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.




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Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/9/2008 1:40 PM | Add Comment

Rumor: Columbia's Lee C. Bollinger Drafts Eulogy for Jerusalem Shooter


There is a rumor circulating on the Internet and other venues that Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger is drafting a eulogy that he would like read to commemorate the Palestinian terrorist who earlier this week killed 8 Jewish students in Jerusalem.

Bollinger has a well-established record of honoring terrorists and dismissing their victims. In this instance, we have heard, Bollinger believes that Israel acted prematurely in stopping the shooting spree of killer Alaa Abu Dhein, a resident of East Jerusalem.

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Cry Babies: Bollinger Would Chastise These
Students for Robbing the Murderer of His
Free Speech Rights
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"Couldn't we have learned more about the mind of a terrorist if Israel had not shot Alaa in cold blood?" a draft transcript of Bollinger's eulogy reportedly says. "Can we really just shut down Alaa's free speech rights just because he is a heartless murderer?" Bollinger's text asks.

Indeed, Bollinger invited Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus on September 24, 2007, even though A-Jad has ordered the deaths of many of his own citizens for being gay, or a woman, or for disrespecting Allah. "Just because you are the devil incarnate, doesn't mean that students and professors can't gain from asking you tough questions," Bollinger has reportedly said.

Bollinger believes that when Alaa, himself only 20, began shooting innocent students at Jerusalem's Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, the Palestinian gunman was merely expressing his god-given first amendment rights. After all, think of the oppressed Palestinians who have full citizenship in East Jerusalem, unlike those damn Jews who can't even visit Arab countries, much less become full citizens.

Sources who claim to be close to Bollinger said he would welcome the opportunity to eulogize Alaa before a global television audience and to denounce violence at the same time.

Reports that Bollinger hung a Hamas flag inside his office after learning of the Jerusalem shootings have been dismissed by reliable sources, although the rumor seems hard to stop given Bollinger's obvious sympathies.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/7/2008 9:30 PM | Add Comment

What About Their Free Speech, Lee?


They might have been current or future students at Columbia University: Yohai Livshitz, 18; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16; Yonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19; Neria Cohen, 15; Segev Peniel Avihail, 15; Avraham David Moses, 16; Roee Roth, 18; and Maharta Taruno, 26.

They were students. They were studying. And on March 6, 2008, they were gunned down without mercy by a terrorist who directly or indirectly received support from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- the well-known Columbia University lecturer and all-around genocidal maniac.
Free speech, you see, doesn't apply to the victims of terror, only to the perpetrators. At least, that is how we believe Columbia University views the world.

When Ahmadinejad spoke on campus last September 24 , Columbia University essentially capitulated to his evil and all the evil he supports. Such as Hamas. Such as Hezbullah.

The eight dead Israeli students are nothing, nada, zip, ziltch. Not even a grain of dust in the global plans of Ahmadinejad. He wants to kill innocent Israeli's by the millions, not the single digits.

And Columbia University invites Ahmadinejad to speak on its campus in the name of free speech and academic enrichment.

Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia, ought to be frying in hell for giving voice to a madman like Ahmadinejad, who joins with thousands in Gaza in celebrating the butchering of innocent Jewish students.

Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/6/2008 11:25 PM | Add Comment

Recent Statements by Palestinian Leaders Pose Problem for Columbia University & Lee Bollinger


Lee C. 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 University to insure the academic integrity of the campus. But whom to believe: Mamhoud Ahmadinejad the full out denier, or Khaled Mashaal (photo) and Mahmoud 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?

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 3/1/2008 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Arab Professor Sentenced to 180 Lashes for Having Coffee with a Girl -- Let's Hear It For Academic Freedom!

180 lashes and eight months in jail is the punishment meted out to an Arab professor who made the mistake of having contact (a cup of coffee) with an unrelated woman, according to an article in The Times (London).

The news struck us as ironic since so many American Universities in general -- and Columbia University in particular -- continue to provide forums and accept money from the dictatorships of the very Arab governments that support such behavior. Chief among them, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/29/2008 5:47 PM | Add Comment

Idiots on Parade: Columbia University Alumni Prove That 'Educated' Doesn't Mean 'Smart'


The current issue of "Columbia - The Magazine of Columbia University" proves beyond doubt that just because a person completes his or her education from the once prestigious Ivy League school doesn't make the individual smart.

In the magazine's Letters sections, more than 1/2 dozen alumni comment on an interview the magazine conducted with University President Lee C. Bollinger, in which Bollinger discusses his controversial invitation to campus and introduction of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A-Jad befouled Columbia last September 24, 2007.

Most of the alumni were critical of Bollinger. But not for the obvious reason, i.e. allowing a blood-stained, gay-hating, women-stoning, anti-American, genocidal maniac a global platform from which to spew evil.

No, these 'educated' alumni think dear old "Stinky" -- as we've come to call Bollinger -- was too tough in his introductory remarks of the worst living head-of-state since Adolph himself.

"President Bollinger's remarks at the appearance of President Ahmadinejad are an embarrassment to the University," believes W.L. Williamson '49 of Madison, WI. Adds J. Pierre Kolisch '39 of Portland, OR, "A speaker of Bollinger's experience knows that 'very sharp' is a deceptive characterization of his deliberately critical introduction of Ahmadinejad."

So here is the clear message for other University administrators and faculty members who think they can advance their own prestige by inviting hate mongers to campus: Don't.

Everyone believes in free speech. But no one MUST lend their institutional credibility to enable the likes of Ahmadinejad to advance their own agendas. If you invite a tyrant to your campus, you will be hated from all sides. As Lee Bollinger has discovered and well deserves.



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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/25/2008 5:13 AM | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger 'Mask' Won't Hide His Complicity in Ahmadinejad's Blood Libel


A member of Bnai Haman prepares his Purim mask featuring Lee C. "Stinky" Bollinger, president of Columbia University.

This year members of Bnai Haman will be dressing up as members of Columbia's faculty and administration to help
protest the university's decision last September to permit Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus. (For full details, see previous post below)

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/23/2008 11:27 AM | Add Comment

More Blather from Ahmadinejad and Mini-Ahmadinejad; More Silence from Columbia University


"If we remain quiet in light of the Zionists' crimes, we will be unable to do anything tomorrow if they act against."

So says Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who in recent days has ratcheted up his anti-Israel, 'wipe them off the map' rhetoric.

Meanwhile, mini-Ahmadinejad, Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hizbullah and A-Jad's Lebanese handpuppet, echoed his boss's earlier remarks saying that Israel's demise is an established fact and promising revenge against "you robbing and murdering Zionists."

Late word is that Columbia University is trying to secure a commitment from mini-Ahmadinejad to speak on campus in the near future and face tough questionning from students and faculty.  Meanwhile, the vaunted Columbia University Board of Trustees said....well.....it has said nothing.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/22/2008 9:11 PM | Add Comment

Some Revelers to Wear Lee C. Bollinger Masks at This Year's Purim Fetes


Costumes are a traditional part of the festivities that surround the annual Jewish holiday of Purim.

Purim commemorates the reversal of fortune for the Jews of 6th Century Persia, who were facing extermination at the hands of the 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.



Purim revelers can dress as Ahmadinejad (l)
or Bollinger (r)

At modern Purim carnivals, it is customary for children and adults alike to dress up as Esther, Mordechai and other characters from the biblical story, including Haman.

This year, however, to mark the September 24, 2007 speech by Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University, a group of Columbia alumni and concerned citizens - known as Bnai Haman - are planning an Ahmadinejad-themed Purim festival.

"Ahmadinejad and Haman have a lot in common in that both men plotted to exterminate all the Jews," says a spokeswoman for Bnai Haman, a not-for-profit group of volunteers. "And just as Haman found those in ancient Persia who would listen to his incitements, so too did Columbia University provide a platform for Ahmadinejad to espouse Israel's destruction to a global media audience."


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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/19/2008 4:39 PM | Add Comment

Hezbollah Will Destroy Israel, Says Head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards

Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said on February 18th that Israel will soon be destroyed by Hezbollah, according to a report by Reuters.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/18/2008 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Imagine the Many Words Lee C. Bollinger Might Have Used to Introduce 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.

 
 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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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/15/2008 7:59 AM | Add Comment

Bomber Who Killed Mughniyeh Robs Columbia University's Lee Bollinger of Next 'Guest'

The sadness was palpable on the campus of Columbia University on Tuesday, February 12, after word of the death of Hizballah terrorist Imad Mughniyah reached school administrators. Mughniyah, who was suspected in helping blow up the Jewish cultural center in Argentina in the 1990s and of killing hundreds of U.S. marines in Lebanon in the 1980s would have made a perfect speaker for Columbia, which welcomes murderers with massive amounts of blood on their hands.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/13/2008 9:42 PM | Add Comment

While Patriots Crash, Iran Fires Rocket Into Space


Even as the dreams of a perfect-perfect season crashed around Robert Kraft's New England Patriots, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was realizing another of his evil dreams, launching a rocket from Iran's newly opened space center.

CNN reports that Ahmadinejad boasted that "with the launch, Iran has joined the world's top 11 countries possessing space technology to build satellites, and launch rockets into space." A-Jad failed to mention his plan to use space weapons to blow the Zionist entity to smithereens and to zap American passenger jets out of the sky.

Meanwhile, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger rests comfortably in the knowledge that his students had the 'academic' opportunity to question A-Jad last September 24th. And not one major donor -- aka Robert Kraft -- or one member of the Columbia University Board of Trustees, has yet to publicly denounce the Bollinger-Ahmadinejad speech.



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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/4/2008 8:00 AM | Add Comment

‘Curse of Ahmadinejad’ Fells Robert Kraft and His New England Patriots

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.


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Posted by Lest We Forget at 2/3/2008 9:11 PM | Add Comment

"Filthy" Jewish State's Days Are Numbered, Says Featured Columbia University Speaker

It is more than four months since Columbia University and Lee C. Bollinger provided Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a forum to spew his vile, genocidal views. How proud they must be.

Now Ahmadinejad, true to form, is again forecasting the demise of "the filthy Zionist entity," a.k.a. Israel. As recently reported by multiple mainstream news outlets, Ahmadinejad spoke in the southern Iranian town of Bushehr, where he maintained that Israel "has has lost ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 1/31/2008 9:12 PM | Add Comment

The [Rush] Limbaugh Letter Pairs Jimmy Carter and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Soul Lock

In the January 2008 edition of The Limbaugh Letter, radio talk show powerhouse Rush Limbaugh lets lose on former President Jimmy Carter and current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"Here are two guys who truly deserve each other.  Comrades.  Fellow travelers.  Soulmates, even," says El Rushbo. 

 
 The Limbaugh Letter on A-Jad/Carter

Now those who don't fancy Limbaugh, including most of the lopsidedly liberal administrators and academics at Columbia University, will quickly dismiss Rush's insights as just more Neo-Con blabber. 

But Rush makes a valid point.

Carter has spent the best part of his post-Presidency sucking up to vile tyrants, notes Rush, including Fidel Castro, Kim Il-Sung, Manuel Noriega and Yasser Arafat. 

Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, is 2008's most vile tyrant du jour. 

Rush suggests that Carter and Ahmadinejad were meant for one another.  He calls them the left's dream team: "Jimmy and Mahmoud: two America-loathing, Israel-stalking, terrorist-loving, democracy-destroying nincompoops..."


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Posted by Lest We Forget at 1/5/2008 11:19 AM | Add Comment

LeeBollinger-BnaiHaman.com Enjoys its First Groupie - "Ungvar"

She won't reveal her true name, although we think her first name is Valerie. She professes to hate what we do, but she can't seem to pull herself away from our site or to refrain from commenting on our posts. Using the web handle "ungvar," she delights in trying to "expose" the membership of Bnai Haman and the real personalities who've donated their time and resources to our effort.

Don't we love it!

Well Valerie or Ungvar or Bozo or whoever you are -- thanks for the flattering attention. Readership for this site has continued to grow consistently larger as ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 1/1/2008 8:49 PM | Add Comment

Irrefutable Video Evidence: Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger's Secret 'Dance' with Iran's Ahmadinejad

Bnai Haman's undercover investigators were on hand when Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger reunited with Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to engage in a celebratory 'dance' in honor of their notorious performance on campus on September 24, 2007.

Indeed, our sources report, that both Bollinger and Ahmadinejad got so much publicity for the stunt that the two are in serious negotiations to do a global campus tour together, with Bollinger insulting A-Jad and A-Jad preaching hatred of all minorities and women. (By the way, did you know ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/31/2007 10:07 AM | Add Comment

Jazz-Pop Sensation Nellie McKay Calls Columbia's Lee C. Bollinger a "Doofus"

Even before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to Columbia University and made Lee C. Bollinger a legend in his own brine, Jazz-Pop singer Nellie McKay was traveling around the country singing the ballad of Lee the Doofus.

In an interview with New York magazine in August 2007, she spoke about her disdain for Bollinger, saying "he looks like a big, dumb jock -- a doofus."

Well, it's hard to argue with the truth -- although Bollinger and his cronies sure do try.

Listen to Nellie rip Columbia a new one in a bravura life performance.


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Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/29/2007 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Getting Chewed Out By Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger is Akin to Being Lectured By 'Fraiser'

Ahmadinejad Hearts NY

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/27/2007 8:28 PM | Add Comment

Wife's Search for ex-FBI Agent, Missing Since March in Iran, Comes Up Empty

The students at Columbia University had various questions -- and plenty of applause -- for Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he spoke on campus on September 24, 2007. But none of them asked A-Jad about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who has been missing in Iran since March 2007.

Reuters reports on December 22, 2007 that Levinson's wife, Christine, has come up with no answers during a four-day visit to the Islamic state in search of her husband.

"We still don't know where Bob is and the nightmare I and my family are experiencing will ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/22/2007 10:22 AM | Add Comment

Newest Bnai Haman Inductees: The Trustees of Columbia University


These men and women are charged with supervising Columbia University's President, Lee C. Bollinger. Their silence in the wake of the September 24, 2007 campus speech by Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can no longer be overlooked.

Their names, like Bollinger's, John H. Coatsworth's, and Richard W. Bulliet's must be enshrined in the House of Bnai Haman for their failures to guard the very soul of a once-great university. 

Like the villains of biblical times, many of these individuals enjoy great wealth and the patina of respectibility. But history, as history always does, will judge these ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/20/2007 11:20 PM | Add Comment

The Three Stooges -- Bollinger, Bulliet & Coatsworth -- Continue To Make Fools of Themselves at Columbia U.

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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Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/20/2007 11:15 PM | Add Comment

Bnai Haman Comments on Columbia University's Bulliet-Bollinger Feud as Reported in The Washington Post

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) December 19, 2007 -- The growing public feud between Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Richard W. Bulliet, a professor of Islamic studies, demonstrates the price academics pay when they invite controversial figures to speak on campus, according to Bnai Haman.

As reported in The Washington Post on Sunday, December 16, 2007, Columbia University is still roiled by the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nearly three months later. Ahmadinejad spoke on campus on September 24, 2007.

 
 Bulliet Backbiting Bollinger


Both Bulliet, who invited Ahmadinejad to speak, and Bollinger, who defended the invitation and then introduced Ahmadinejad, have come under intense criticism for their roles.

Now, as the Post reported, Bulliet is openly criticizing Bollinger. "There have been an accumulation of events since Bollinger arrived that have people riled up," Bulliet told the Post. "I have never seen a situation quite like this one, and I've been here for 32 years."

Bnai Haman, a group of Columbia University alumni and concerned citizens, writes on its web site that it isn't surprising to see such infighting surface in the wake of the Ahmadinejad speech.

"Although Lee Bollinger told the Post that he would like to put the speech behind him, the choice isn't his," Bnai Haman says. "The lesson to be learned here by other academic institutions is that actions such as those of Bollinger and Bulliet can derail everything else on your agenda. So think carefully before you step into the abyss."

Bnai Haman is dedicated to reminding the world of the Ahmadinejad speech at Columbia, an event it has dubbed a "stain on the University's soul."

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/19/2007 9:01 PM | Add Comment

TIME Names Lee C. 'Stinky' Bollinger the Public Idiot of the Year. (Britney & Paris Miffed!!)

Now this is a proud moment for Columbia University and its dignified president, Lee C. 'Stinky' Bollinger. TIME magazine has just put 'Stinky' at the top of its list of public figures making fools of themselves in 2007.

1. ) Columbia University President Lee Bollinger invites the Iranian president to speak on campus.

2. ) Paris Hilton cries for her mommy.

3. ) Alec Baldwin rips his daughter a new one.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 12/15/2007 7:02 PM | Add Comment

The Stink Surrounding Lee C. Bollinger Has Grown So Foul Even He Can't Stand It


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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Posted by Lest We Forget at 11/26/2007 1:07 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Lies, Damn Lies, and Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger's Lies

Alumni, faculty and friends of Columbia University were heartened to receive the Fall 2007 edition of COLUMBIA: The Magazine of Columbia University.

At last, President Lee C. Bollinger sat for a penetrating, hard-probing interview to examine his motives for inviting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to campus, where Ahmadinejad was given a prestigious platform to spew his evil vile. NOT!

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 11/21/2007 9:01 AM | Add Comment

Is Lee C. Bollinger Good for Columbia University?

It's not clear to us what the job and responsibilities are of a University president, but somehow we fail to see how the actions of Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger are benefiting the campus and the campus community.

Bollinger is certainly drawing a lot of attention to himself and to Columbia with his push, for example, to expand the physical boundaries of the campus into the surrounding community.  And no doubt, few will soon forget both his invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus followed by his dressing down of same.

As a result of Bollinger's actions, do more students wish to attend Columbia?  Are alumni inclined to reach deeper into their pockets to endow the school?  Are professors clamoring to leave their existing institutions and sign on at Columbia?  Will students leave the campus better prepared to deal with the world at large?

Just who, other than himself, is Lee C. Bollinger serving?  It is a question we hope the Columbia University Board of Trustees is asking itself.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 11/18/2007 7:45 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger Welcomes the 'Devil' to Columbia University

Though they speak of lofty ideals and with high-minded self righteousness, the administration and faculty of Columbia University and President Lee C. Bollinger 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!
 
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Posted by Lest We Forget at 11/15/2007 2:10 PM | Add Comment

Published Letter from Columbia College Student to Lee C. Bollinger and the Administration

Yet in order to maintain your overwhelming record of disappointing the majority of your students, you had to appease the hunger strikers. You had to give them the impression that you were actually listening, that you actually cared, and that things were actually changing. Uh, who are you and what have you done with the old administration? It is not like you to care about your students.

Edward Beaulac ('08)
Columbia (University) Spectator
November 21, 2007
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Posted by Lest We Forget at 11/15/2007 2:06 PM | Add Comment

More Than 100 Members of Columbia University Faculty Criticize Lee C. Bollinger's Leadership

At a faculty meeting this week, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger heard complaints about his leadership and received a statement of concern signed by more than 100 teachers at the school.

Bollinger, according to The New York Times, "likened his experience at the faculty meeting to watching open-heart surgery on himself..."

The Times noted that unhappiness stemming from the September 24, 2007 speech of Iranian President Mahamoud Ahmidinejad on campus "has simmered on campus ever since."



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Posted by Lest We Forget at 11/15/2007 2:05 PM | Add Comment

"Today, we've reached 3,000 centrifuges" Ahmadinejad Tells Rally; Is Columbia's Lee C. Bollinger Worried?


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, ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/23/2007 4:50 PM | Add Comment

Columbia University and Lee C. Bollinger Disgrace Themselves 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 ...<< MORE >>

Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/23/2007 4:47 PM | Add Comment

Bnai Haman Vows To 'Never Foget' The Shame of Lee C. Bollinger and Columbia University

"Bollinger's invitation to Ahmadinejad will stand as one of the most foul acts by an American university in the 
history of our country," says Bnai Haman, owner and publisher of the new web site. 

 

The group 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 its Jews off the map. 

 

"More than 1,500 years later, the name Haman is reviled by all decent people.  Likewise, we hope the names 
Ahmadinejad and Bollinger will be reviled for centuries to come," Bnai Haman said. 

 

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/23/2007 9:01 AM | Add Comment

In Nod to Free Speech, Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger to Invite 'Noose' Culprit to Speak

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 ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/23/2007 8:58 AM | Add Comment

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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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/22/2007 4:52 PM | Add Comment

A Dialog with Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger


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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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/22/2007 4:51 PM | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger Leads Many Columbia University Alums To View Their Diplomas As 'Soiled'

Aliza Davidovit, a veteran journalist and graduate of Columbia University's vaunted Graduate School of Journalism, bravely destroys her diploma in protest of the speech on campus given by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the invitation of CU President Lee C. Bollinger.


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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/22/2007 4:51 PM | Add Comment

Why Ahmadinejad Loves Columbia University & Lee C. Bollinger

The Cheshire Cat smile worn by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his address at Columbia University on Monday was no surprise — the event was a resounding victory for the Iranian president.

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 ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/22/2007 4:51 PM | Add Comment

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

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/22/2007 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Ahmadinejad Trumps Lee C. Bolinger at Columbia University

Bollinger clearly had an American audience in mind when he denounced the Iranian leader to his face as a "cruel" and "petty dictator" and described his Holocaust denial as designed to "fool the illiterate and the ignorant."

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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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/22/2007 12:01 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger Won't Permit ROTC at Columbia University, Although He Allows a Terrorist to Speak?

Columbia administrators claim that having the Iranian president speak shows the world that the university believes and protects our freedom of speech.

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.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/21/2007 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Law School Dean Disagrees with Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger

...Mr. Ahmadinejad has proven himself, time and again, to be uninterested in whether his words are true. Therefore, my personal opinion is that he should not be invited to speak. Mr. Ahmadinejad is a reprehensible and dangerous figure who presides over a repressive regime, is responsible for the death of American soldiers, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the destruction of Israel. It would be deeply regrettable if some misread this invitation as lending prestige or legitimacy to his views.

David M. Schizer, 
Dean, Columbia Law School
Statement
9/24/07
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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/21/2007 4:54 PM | Add Comment

Okay, So Ahmadinejad Lead An Oppressive, Theocratic Regime....Why Not Give Him Respect?

No government that treats its citizens as does the one in Iran can be called civilized. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads an oppressive, theocratic regime in a society that is anything but free and democratic. Those who refer to him as an elected leader should be reminded that in Iran, all candidates must be approved by a Guardian Council appointed by Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a religious zealot who has spoken out strongly against equality of the sexes, homosexuality, and music education.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/20/2007 6:00 PM | Add Comment

McCain is 'Astonished' By Lee C. Bollinger's Hypocrisy

"I still find it astonishing and astounding that Columbia University would welcome the president of a country that has not only dedicated itself to a policy of extinction of the state of Israel, but as he is speaking, most of the lethal and explosive devices are being exported from Iran into Iraq, endangering and taking the lives of brave Americans who are serving.

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."

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/20/2007 5:04 PM | Add Comment

Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger is 'Naive Beyond Expression'

Today's fiasco has nothing to do with what Bollinger said, a name little known or long remembered anywhere outside of the upper West Side. It is about the platform Columbia provided this thug who is actively engaged in the killing of American soldiers and Marines while plotting the extermination of Israel..

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
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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/19/2007 5:08 PM | Add Comment

Even Maureen Dowd Thinks Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger Blew It

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 students and let it rip.

Maureen Dowd, Columnist
The New York Times
September 26, 2007
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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/18/2007 6:11 PM | Add Comment

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 ...<< MORE >>

Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/18/2007 5:10 PM | Add Comment

'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, ...<< MORE >>

Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/17/2007 5:14 PM | Add Comment

Would Lee C. Bollinger Host a Speaker From the KKK at Columbia University?

“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

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/16/2007 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger Provided 'A Platform to the Greatest Lies in the World' -- Shimon Peres

"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 ...<< MORE >>

Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/15/2007 5:19 PM | Add Comment

Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger's Bollixed Efforts

It appeared to many that Mr. Bollinger's Columbia was exercising one standard for his country's own military and quite another for the Holocaust-fudging, terror-sponsoring dictator of Iran.

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 ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/14/2007 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Lee C. Bollinger'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.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/13/2007 5:24 PM | Add Comment

Will Students Who Applauded Lee C. Bollinger at Columbia University 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.

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/12/2007 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger Knows He Is 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

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Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/11/2007 5:28 PM | Add Comment

Columbia University's Lee C. Bollinger Was 'Deeply Naive'

 ...it was deeply naive to imagine that the Iranian president would enter into a "vigorous debate" with students who were deploying their "powers of dialogue and reason," as Columbia University President Lee Bollinger stated before the event, or that he would answer the appropriately aggressive questions Bollinger put to him -- which of course he didn't. (To a question about persecution of gays, Ahmadinejad responded: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country.")

All things being equal, Columbia would have done better to ignore him, instead of feeding the media circus that serves his purposes. It's ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/10/2007 5:31 PM | Add Comment

Conflicts Related to Election of Columbia University's Lee Bollinger to Board of Washington Post Company

We need more independent scholars and public intellectuals, especially in the communications and media fields. That’s why it is disheartening to learn that well-regarded First Amendment scholar and Columbia U. president Lee C. Bollinger has agreed to become a director at the Washington Post Co. Such an involvement raises a number of critical conflicts and problems.

First, Mr. Bollinger will be working to help a company that has substantial interests and investments that run counter to a truly open and diverse communications system in the U.S. Through the Post’s Cable One ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Lest We Forget at 9/9/2007 10:32 PM | Add Comment
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