September 23, 2007
President Lee C. Bollinger
Columbia University

Dear President Bollinger,

I was pleased to learn of your initiative to invite Mr. Ahmadinejad to speak to staff and students at Columbia University.

As a person on the extermination list of your honored guest, I would like to congratulate you for this courageous act.

You are known for your keen interest in human rights and you could not have found a better example for applying this than the invitation extended to this true humanist, intellectual and scholar. The memory of Mr. Vaclav Havel (merely an ex-President of an obscure country), one of your previous guest speakers at Columbia, will rightly be overshadowed by the radiating glory of your present invitee. We are all looking forward to the intellectual challenge of his oration and to the sincere and honest way in which this noble man will answer the expected provocations of those disgusting Jewish students at Columbia (a reminder that you should learn from wiser University administrators, such as Professor Heidegger, who got rid of this vermin in a most effective way).

I was most gratified to learn that one of your distinguished colleagues (John Coatsworth) assured us that he would have invited Mr. Hitler to Columbia, would this endeavor not be made difficult by the Jewish-Free Masons conspiracy, which dragged the United States into the second world war, just as the American Jews of today are trying to involve the United States in a confrontation with one of the great democracies of the Middle East (see John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).

I apologize for the fact that the late Mr. Hitler is no longer available to adorn the auditorium at Columbia but, as an M.D., I have a remedy for Professor Coatsworth: Columbia University could organize public readings from “Mein Kampf”, perhaps to be chaired by prominent Hamas and Islamic Jihad scholars. The only problem might be that you will require auditoria able to accommodate more than 600 students.

Good luck with your splendid human rights work. Do not give up. The President of that other splendid democracy, North Korea, is eagerly awaiting an invitation from you. Do not disappoint him.

In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen…

Sincerely,

Edgar Pick, M.D.,Ph.D.

Professor

Director, the Julius Friedrich Cohnheim – Minerva

Center for Phagocyte Research

Head, the Ela Kodesz Institute of Host Defense

against Infectious Diseases

Incumbent, the Roberts-Guthman Chair in Immunopharmacology

Sackler School of Medicine

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Tel: 972-3-640-7872

FAX: 972-3-642-9119

E-mail: epick@post.tau.ac.il