College and University Monitor

In a letter to Columbia College President Lee Bollinger, Lauder said the final straw for him was the college’s invitation to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed, who is slated to bid on campus on Wednesday. Mohamed is smartly-known for his extremist views and for but again and but again espousing antisemitism, at the side of smearing Jews as “hook-nosed” and claiming “Jews rule the sphere by proxy.”

Amid calls from opponents of antisemitism to nix the hasten to, Bollinger defended the invitation, writing in a letter to pupil groups that “this invent of open engagement can typically be complicated, even painful.”

“However to abandon this activity would possibly presumably be to restrict severely our ability to note and confront the sphere because it is, which is a central and fully excessive mission for any academic establishment,” Bollinger argued.

In his letter to Bollinger, Lauder retorted, “I realize, out of your voice, that you just mediate it is in the fervour of training that every views are aired at Columbia. With the final sector leaders and statesmen in Fresh York this week, I ponder why this man’s views are so necessary?”...