Time to send Lee Bollinger to Dubai!

The NY Sun reports that the commission of whitewash set up by Lee Bollinger, the President of the Columbia Madrassah up on 125th street in Manhattan, Edward Said's old playground, has now cleared all of the anti-Semites on the Columbia faculty. Not even a smidgen of anti-Semitism could be found anywhere throughout the house, not even a little jihadnik mouse, insist Bollinger's hand-picked boys.

The official banner of Columbia by the way will now be changed so as to show those famous three chimps in a row, one covering its eyes, one covering its ears, and one covering its ass. We are sure that if Bollinger had headed and appointed the commission to investigate 9-11, it would have concluded that there was no evidence of any anti-Americanism at all among Osama and his playful al-Qaeda friends.

The Sun, by the way, had to sneak out a copy of the report without the permission of the university administration in an undercover operation. When a reporter from the Sun came to Low Library, the central administration building, for a copy of the report, a security guard threatened to arrest the reporter if she did not leave the building.

Now the whole pretense of an investigation into campus bigotry and anti-Semitism at Columbia was conducted by Bollinger thanks only to the enormous public pressure on Columbia over the mistreatment of Jewish students by faculty anti-Semites there, and the prevailing atmosphere of PC thought suppression and bias. In particular, Bollinger agreed to the charade after the release of "Columbia Unbecoming," produced by a pro-Israel group based in Boston, which focused national attention on the treatment of Jewish students and how Israel is portrayed and researched at one of the nation's most prestigious universities.

Meanwhile, we think that Bollinger should be promoted to superintendent of schools in Dubai. Why Dubai?

Because in Dubai this week, politicians, teachers and parents are complaining about a textbook ("Friends Forever") that shows a photograph of two Jewish children playing. Dr Obaid Butti Al Mohiri, the Director of Curriculums Center at the Ministry of Education in Dubai, yesterday said he would order the withdrawal of the book for primary Class I of the Dubai International School if the complaints raised [about the photograph] were found genuine.

According to an article today in the Khaleej Times (a newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates), it seems that the censors in Dubai check every book for Jew-Sign (kind of like Worm-Sign in those old Dune books) and other transgressions. The article states that the staff employed to check schoolbooks claim they are overworked and cannot check every book, and they need to employ more people for the task of uncovering Joos. The Khaleej Times does not explain why it would be wrong to show Jewish children as normal and illustrate that they can be "Friends Forever" just like Arab children.

We figure Bollinger could follow his true instincts and investigate anti-Semitism in Dubai and in its schools. He could appoint a commission that would not only clear Dubai, but proclaim that there is no anti-Semitism at all anywhere in the Arab world.