Bollinger Effigies Go Global
Just when we thought Lee Bollinger hadn't done anything in the past month or two to inflame various Columbia constituencies, here comes a reminder that all is not well in Columbia-land.
In honor of the Jewish Festival of Purim - in which my people get drunk and dress up in costumes to celebrate their deliverance from annihilation in ancient Persia - the advocacy group Bnei Haman, founded to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's September visit to campus, is distributing masks of President Bollinger and President Ahmadinejad ("Bnei Haman" is literally translated as "children of Haman" - Haman being the villain of the Purim story, the man who sought to destroy the Jewish people). According to Bnei Haman - who are planning an extensive Purim masquerade ball, mainly involving effigies of Bollinger - the organization has received over 2,000 requests for Bollinger masks from around the world, from places as far-flung as Kazakhstan (is this another joke? Borat maks?). A spokesman declared:
The Ahmadinejad-Bollinger speech was broadcast around the globe and its lasting impact can't be overstated. 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."
Sure, the fight against evil might no know boundaries, but your sense of boundaries knows no sense of proportion.
After the jump: some very weird stuff from the Bnei Haman blog.
This stuff is all posted by one Jed Christianson (Christianson? Seriously?) on September242007.com (apparently this is yet another date that will live in infamy).
A March 1 post:
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?
And then the insane belief that the Patriots lost the Super Bowl because their owner, Robert Kraft (another Jew!) continues to give money to Columbia:
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."
I can't wait for Purim so I can get dressed up and get drunk so that I can't tell my right hand from left and am finally able to forget about all this crap.
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March 9th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Let’s single out an portion among this craziness. Bob and Myra Kraft have donated money to CU but they have also (like other donors) used their donations to get standing to push their educational agenda (which in fairness is a motivation for most donors.) What makes it funny though is that the Krafts have pushed for pro-Zionism in education- so if the donation cost them a Super Bowl (and not the G-MEN’s D) “Mr. Christianson” should not be unhappy. Said Ms. Kraft:
“I understand, if I were a Palestinian, and the third generation now in a refugee camp, I’d probably be doing the same thing to myself, because it’s wrong.”
Thus billionaire Zionist Myra Kraft admits that she herself would conduct an a desperate suicide operation if she faced the same third-generation refugee camp plight as the Palestinians. And she admits that the existence of Palestinians in refugee camps for 3 generations is wrong.
Not that this makes any difference to the Krafts who have been and remain committed benefactors of Zionist causes. It isn’t the ethnic cleansing of Palestine for 60 years is to blame according to the Krafts, it is in their words :”the Arab world for failing to take them in.”
That’s like a mugger blaming his victims injuries his violence caused because the ambulance service was slow.
Asked “Mr. Christianson” (Who has a sense of humor in his pseudonyms at least) “Which terrorists should next be honored with a platform at the university?” Well there are a slew of Israeli officials on the calendar. But I personally think the should be treated with respect by university officials as an example of the principle that respect is the first step to better relations.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Review the history of refugee camps in the Palestinian territories. For twenty years these camps were controlled by Jordan and Egypt, and virtually none of the Palestinians living in the camps were resettled during that time. By comparison, the 800,000 or so Jews who fled the Arab world in those years were seamlessly integrated into the state of Israel. Why Israel was so much more successful than Jordan and Egypt in assuring the comfort and prosperity of its refugees is an open question. It seems likely that Jordan and Egypt kept Palestinians in refugee camps for political leverage, trading on civilians’ misery–after all, it’s easier to convince the world that there Israel is responsible for a humanitarian crisis when you’re making sure the humanitarian crisis exists. Whether or not you believe this, the continued existence of the camps represents a vast humanitarian failure on the part of those two countries.
This is what Myra Kraft was referring to. The many thousands of Palestinians living in refugee camps could have been resettled nearly fifty years ago. That they were not is a blot on Arab nationalism and a major reason that today’s peace process can’t get traction.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
That has to be the biggest crock of bs I have ever seen written. Seamlessly integrated into the state of Israel? You mean the Nakba, the loss of land and homes, in a racial state that denies Palestinians even simple rights like educating their kids or respected rights to your very home? You mean the state where people live as slaves in their own land, in ghettos with harassment and searches and extra-judicial arrests and imprisonment, killings, special patrols, deportations abuse and denial of any real participation in society?
Or perhaps you are talking about the seamlessness of the occupied territories, the camps of death, disease, misery and hunger controlled by the Israeli Gestapo?
Either way, it doesn’t matter. No on buys that. Perhaps you are confusing “seamless” with “stories made up from whole cloth”.
Millions were resettled in nations as varied as Iraq, Lebanon Syria and Kuwait. Over half of Jordan’s population are Palestinians. Recall those charred refugees on the trail of death from Kuwait to Bhagdad? They were mostly Palestinians fleeing Kuwait.
Jordan and Egypt never controlled Palestine, they made a point of not accepting control because it would be to acknowledge the right to push people off their and for a racial state. There are no Arabs who are defending the puppet Arab gov’ts put in by the U.S. but they did declare the area a state, which immediately brought in you know who…
But yes, I too tire of this. Zionist types on the other hand seem to have ceaseless energy I must concede. I am always surprised just how tiresome Zionism is and tireless Zionists are.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Why do shitty for-profit universities like University of Phoenix and Belhaven College advertise on IvyGate?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Dear Jacob, that is going to have to be some pretty potent booze to help you forget all this crap. People want to forget. It makes them feel better. The reason Jews celebrate Purim is not to forget. Don’t you get that Ahmadinejad is a modern-day Haman? To let this monster, who hangs gays, stones women and wishes to be Hitler II when it comes to Israel is not old news. Sure, you probably want to get back to watching Lost or some other inane activity. But like the walls of Jericho, the Ivy walls of Columbia University should come tumbling down for its complacency in welcoming a tyrant with so much blood on his hands.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Seconded. Wise-up, libs.
Also, finals are hurting my soul.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/016975.shtml
I’m no liberal, at least in the sense I presume you’re using. Yet I so agree. Finals are killing my soul as well. And I wouldn’t mind the walls of CU being down, if only to expedite cutting across campus.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Jed looks like a real winner: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/watchdog/
March 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Jed looks like a real winner: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/watchdog/