The French Revolution Returns to Columbia
Heads Will Roll for the Greater Glory of Palestine and Ahmadinejad

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 13, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/235/the-french-revolution-returns-to-columbia

Excerpt:

Shades of Harvard's Larry Summers! Columbia's President, Lee Bollinger, has just come under faculty-fire for having mistreated Iran's President Ahmadinejad, and in so doing, having "sullied the reputation of the University with (his) strident tone." Bollinger has also been castigated by seventy faculty members for having "allied the University with the Bush administration's war in Iraq" and for taking "partisan political positions concerning the politics of the Middle East."

This is no parody. This is a seventy-gun opening salvo and the unmistakable sound of a bloody drumroll; the French Revolution has returned to Columbia's campus.

I did not think that Columbia should have invited President Ahmadinejad to speak or that President Bollinger was honor-bound to either introduce–or insult him. I wrote about this HERE and HERE.

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