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.