By Ted Belman
The intrepid Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Founder of Israel Law Forum, has many victories in her fight against terror and its enablers. Recently, she was instrumental in ending the Flotilla headed for Gaza merely by sending a “lawyer’s letter” to its insurers.
Last week she sent a similar “lawyer’s letter” to the Universities and Colleges in the US demanding that they protect Jewish students from antisemitism and harassment which has become endemic especially during Israel Apartheid Week. I have no doubt it will have its desired effect at least to a measurable degree.
And now, in advance of Columbia U hosting Ahmadinejad to a dinner, she has sent its President, Lee Bollinger another “lawyer’s letter” which reads in part;
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Hosting Ahmadinejad at a banquet is not merely morally repulsive: it is illegal and will expose Columbia University and its officers to both criminal prosecution and civil liability to American citizens and others victimized by Iranian-sponsored terrorism.
Iran is officially designated under U.S. law as a state-sponsor of terrorism, as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and as a perpetrator of human rights abuses. Ahmadinejad is Iran’s chief executive and personally directs Iran’s terrorist and nuclear proliferation activities and human rights abuse. …
The planned Columbia University event for Ahmadinejad would constitute the type of seemingly innocuous material support that would render both Columbia University and you personally criminally and civilly liable notwithstanding any putative First Amendment claims.
Could not the same liability apply to all Universities that permit speakers on their campuses who are terrorists, members of terrorist organizations or even affiliates.
Three cheers for Nitsana.
Mr Harris, I do respect you for using what looks like probably your real name. It is hard for me to respect these anonymice who hide behind pseudonyms.
But as for your views, this is a different matter. Here you are sitting pretty in Wisconsin and telling us what, when and how to fight. Maybe there are some things which I don’t know. If we go to war against Iran, will you be drafted? Will your children be drafted? If the answer is yes to either of these questions, then I apologize for criticizing you.
Best wishes to all for a happy, healthy and successful New Year,
Yeruham
It is untrue that Bollinger has a dinner date with Amadinejad. I am advised by a person who called Bollinger’s office yesterday and his office denied there ever was such dinner date or meeting between Bollinger and Ahmadinejad.
Listen to what Laura and many others say. You are going overboard and tend to be pontificating. Nitzana Darshan-Leitner has taken another bold step. Hopefully, Irvine Univ and many others like York Univ and Concordia Univ in Canada will become her nest targets. Only the State of Israel can make a decision and, that too, a Cabinet decision about an attack on Iran.
The UN and European leaders lack testicular fortitude when it comes to Muslims. We all need to keep an eye on the ball i.e. Obama and the liberal Jewish useful-idiots
Eugene Narrett is a very good man.
Yashar Koach, Yamit, for bringing him into this.
C.U.should be declaired giving aide3 & comfort to an enemy of the United States of America. All funding nfrom government and private sources should be banned, tax excempt status forforted, services received from NYC termanated, assets frozen. Let C.U. move to Iran. What do we need these traitors for that should be hang.
“Iran is officially designated under U.S. law as a state-sponsor of terrorism…” THEN WHY IS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ALLOWING HIM INTO THE U.S.? Who can we sue or arrest in the U.S. Government…
Where is the UN?
The thoughts and writings of Prof. Eugene Narrett
I asked some students that question and they didn’t know, thus, don’t be surprised if familiar tragedies keep recurring as farce, like a broken record and effluvium of a bad meal.
The big bad hologram wants to make a meal out of Israel again; those damn Jews still won’t get out of Arab-occupied central Israel, and idiot Jews won’t stop giving them jobs within the green line. And now this dude, an ostensible victim of racism wants the Jews out: in ‘his’ defense, he’s just an image on a screen, a talking head, a façade, albeit a grimy and unpleasant one.
Where is the UN? One ought to ask before one places all the blame for “the cycle of violence in the Middle East” and world tensions on the Jew-hating nut-ball who styles in Tehran. While post-modern students may not know it, the United Nations is in NYC; it was conceived there and in London and squats unpleasantly on land gifted to it by a munificent doyen of the Rockefeller clan. There is a photo of him handing the check to the first President of “the world body” in 1946: it is not a pretty picture.
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If it cost Columbia money and bad publicity, they will dis-invite Ahmadinejad. The sponsors will just move the event off-campus to save Columbia’s skin.
Only the government of Israel can take the country to war.In the interim this wonderful Lady continues to battle away for Justice for the Jewish people.She has had many victories in many international courts and long may she continue.Terrorists, and their supportors, financiers and bankers beware!
That an American university would host a dinner in honor of a genocidal monster further exposes the academic community as morally depraved.
Arnold I agree with you that Israel needs to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors. However Nitsana Dershan-Leitner does not possess the power to make that happen, so she is doing what she can in her capacity as an attorney to go after Israel’s enemies. And she is doing an outstanding job of that.
Their is much merit in what you say.However, their is more than one way to kill a pig,than choking it with cherries.The action you advocate has to be instigated by the government of Israel.This wonderful Lady is in the interim fighting a magnificent war with her legal expertise, and has so far won many skirmishes,may she continue her valient works until the vile opponent is vanquished.
What a pitiful pile of the typically mild Jewish liberal self-deceiving crap!
All that counts in terms of the threat from Iran is deciding upon and implementing a military means of destroying their incipient nuclear stockpile, before they turn Tel Aviv and Haifa into vast open furnaces.
If your government cannot bring itself to initiate such action before it is too late, your fate will be in the hands of the crazed and power-hungry khomeinist mullahs who run that country and would think less than nothing about killing every one of you.
When will you learn that you never, ever can bargain or reason with the world’s Jew-haters? You either kill them, or if and when the get the opportunity, they will kill you. Wasn’t the murder of the six million Jews in World War II enough to make that lesson sink into the social psychology of the Jewish nation?
Please stop bleating about lawyers’ letters.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI