Bollinger's Blindness

Columbia University's disdain for Israel and the U.S. is a troubling sign.

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Nov 4, 2004

"I think something extremely important is happening on our campuses. They are now turned into sites for cultivation of critical judgment for responsible citizenship in what we hope will remain a free republic. Even as late as five years ago no one would have dared stand on the steps of the Law Library on Columbia Campus and condemn the military thuggery of people like Ariel Sharon. Innocent people in Jenin, Kandahar, Shalamcheh, or Baghdad are brutally massacred and no one would have dared to condemn these acts publicly. But not anymore." - Hamid Dabashi, speaking to the Electronic Intifada online magazine, September 30, 2002

Professor Hamid Dabashi, chairman of Columbia's notorious Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department, is quite correct to point out that "something extremely important" is happening on our campuses. While Mr. Dabashi would celebrate this change - summarized as a growing hatred for America and Israel among students and faculty members - we believe it represents one of the most troubling trends in higher education and a critical problem for Columbia University.

It has become increasingly clear that Columbia's standing as one of the great research universities in the nation is jeopardized by a contingent of professors whose disdain for Israel, America, democracy, and freedom has a remarkable influence over Columbia's curriculum and quality of its research. [The professors have too much say over what they get to teach [convince] young adults to believe in.  Their 'curriculum' has become more political and religious then it used to be. If anyone thinks religion is not involved - let them explain that to the Islamic nations [Said to the shame of the 'Christian' voices of this world]

To appreciate how commonplace and accepted anti-Israel sentiment has become at Columbia, one simply has to take a look at the Web site Columbiadivest.org, the home page of a recent effort at the Morningside Heights campus to persuade Columbia's administration to divest its holdings in companies that sell arms and military hardware to Israel.

More than a third of the full-time faculty of the Mealac department signed the petition, as have a total of 107 Barnard and Columbia faculty members. Signers of the petition include Joseph Massad, a non-tenured professor of modern Arab politics who teaches a course on Middle East nationalism.

Mr. Massad is not shy about his hatred for Israel, a country whose legitimacy as a Jewish state he denies and whose policies he routinely calls "racist." He is the professor, as described in an underground film produced by the Boston-based David Project, who upon completing a lecture refused to answer a question from an Israeli student but ordered the student to say how many Palestinians he killed as a soldier. Rep. Anthony Weiner is absolutely correct to call, as he did yesterday, for Columbia to fire him.

Another signer is Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said chair of Arab studies and author of "Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East." [Why in this world would America allow any author of such a book [the title says it all] teach young Americans anything?  Freedom of speech - YES - but twisted treason? And people wonder why 'anti-Americanism' is flourishing in America?] 

Mr. Khalidi, whose professorship was funded with $200,000 from the United Arab Emirates, is on record condemning terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens, but he has also said he condones attacks on Israeli soldiers in areas he describes as occupied territories, violence that he describes as "resistance." His recent book was riddled with errors and anti-Jewish themes.

Israel can use the same argument and it's not going to get anyone anywhere.

Since religion is involved - why doesn't this world ask what God has said on the matter? Especially the Islamic world. Let them ask what their Koran had to say about Palestine - since they are willing to provoke wars and die for it.

As for the rest of this world - Don't they know the the Lord claimed the name Israel as His heritage? His people are scattered through the globe:

Luk 13:29 They shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Psa 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

Psa 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Hbr 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Gal 4:26 Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Those who are called Israelis - and the western world voices [both political and 'religious'] have not challenged Islam on their reasons for demanding that Palestine be set up in Israel.

The command is:

Zec 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

The very first author of the Bible [Moses] gave a prophetic warning against Palestine} Exd 15:14   [ The saints 'sing' this song}  Rev 15:3 ]

Isaiah says it will be destroyed} Isa 14:31  at an 'appointed time'

And the book of Joel asks Palestine what it has to do with the Lord of the Bible} Joe 3:4  [What commands did the Muslims receive concerning Palestine? that the whole world is being put at risk for total destruction?]

Mar 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation [with life - without the Son], spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, [because this world was warned about it - and the Islamic world has no excuse or valid Spiritual defense - especially when it comes to spilling blood]

Mat 24:21 Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Isa 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations.

Eze 12:25  I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass.

We recognize that the vast majority of the Columbia community is untainted by these hatreds. But these are the professors whose loathing of Israel, dismissal of Israel's security concerns, and contempt of Israel's democratic values cannot be explained or rationalized but are best understood as irrational expressions of anti-Semitism.

More and more of the same anti-Semitism teaching professors - are being 'tolerated'

005.041 O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say "We believe" with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews,- men who will listen to any lie.

002.065 And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

 

007.166 When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said to them: Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

 

005.060 Say: "Shall I point out to you something much worse than this, (as judged) by the treatment it received from Allah? those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil; - these are (many times) worse in rank, and far more astray from the even path!"

 

There you have it! - Straight from the very mouth of the Muslims' god! [because many of them deny - that their religion teaches such discrimination]

 

And these teachings - those professors not only devoutly believe - but want young Americans to believe in them also. [this should not be! Not in America!]

 

They throw accusations at the Bible for teaching the same [because they have no defense in explaining the undeniable viciousness of such commands] - let them begin first with the whole New Testament. Dare them to find JUST ONE Scripture that teaches such discrimination against a whole race! [they can't - because there are none] [The Old testament tells of the times of the 'reapers'} Rth 2:3 - 2Ki 4:18

 

The reapers are the angels} Mat 13:39 The 'reapers' destroy both body AND soul} Mat 13:30 - Mat 10:28 Those who are destroyed - will sleep a perpetual sleep - and not wake} Jer 51:39  saith the Lord of hosts.

 

Humans are not aloud to hurt each other!

 

How much more time should the Lord give - to those who are called Israelis to come forth with these Truths? what about voices like the one that the Vatican has?  or The '''Rev''' Jessie Jackson? along with the other hundreds and hundreds of 'religions' that registered with the U.N. as 'legit'?

 

What about all of the 'rights' groups? the self-professing 'humanitarians'? who design laws against 'Intolerance' - and then justify the Koran with their mouths? a book that THOROUGHLY VIOLATES EVERYTHING they say they stand for???

 

What about the powerful voices of the media - who continually scream about rights being violated?

The fact that these professors share views that are abhorrent to a great majority of Columbia's community has not stopped them from shaping Columbia's research and teaching of subjects related to the Middle East.

Take, for example, a course called "Hate" taught within the Mealac department by comparative literature professor Gil Anidjar. Mr. Anidjar's interest isn't Islamic fundamentalism and its spread through the Middle East, but Jewish self-hatred and how it relates to Israeli culture and Zionism.

Columbia and other schools affected by this anti-Western strand of thought require leadership. Columbia and Barnard need leaders who can state clearly that their schools do not side with enemies of freedom and democracy. [There's a better way to put it! Put their Koran's teachings in front of them and demand some answers!]

009.005 fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.

002.191 Slay them wherever ye catch them 

009.029  Fight those who believe not in Allah

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks. [Behead them]

Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, has criticized the divestment campaign but has so far defaulted when it comes to confronting the academic issues or returning the money from the United Arab Emirates.

Astonishingly, he told the Daily News that he appointed a committee that found not only no bias, but not even any "claims of bias."

The way to begin correcting the situation would be with a grand gesture. A Columbia honorary degree for Prime Minister Sharon would be one way to do it. So would firing Mr. Massad, or giving back the money from the United Arab Emirates, or disciplining Mr. Khalidi for the errors in his book.

Then Columbia could set about hiring some teachers who display genuine critical judgment.

004.095 Not equal are those believers who sit at home and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home. Unto all in Faith Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit at home by a special reward.

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you

Are the 'moderate' Muslims calling their allah a liar?

004.094 O ye who believe! When ye go abroad in the cause of Allah, investigate carefully, and say not to any one who offers you a salutation: "Thou art none of a believer!" Therefore carefully investigate. 

016.106 Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief,- except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith

Or are they carrying out his commands?

No matter what -- The Koran CLEARLY violates America's laws - and International ones as well!

Why invite such a culture - to introduce to the young?

Gal 6:7 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. [The same goes for nations]