Time To Divest...From Columbia University

It is starting to look like sauce for the goose can also be sauce for the moonbat.

A New York City Councilman, James F. Gennaro, is leading the call to institute a boycott and "divestment campaign" against Columbia University in response to the whitewash of campus anti-Semitic professors performed by a committee set up by Columbia's president Lee Bollinger. Gennaro represents the 24th District in Queens, which includes the neighborhoods of Kew Gardens Hills, Hillcrest, Jamaica Estates, and Fresh Meadows. The call to "divest" from Columbia comes at the same time that a group of British pseudo-academic moonbats are trying to launch a campaign to boycott Israeli universities because Israel occassionally dares to shoot back and never mind how full those Israeli universities themselves are with left-wing moonbats.

Gennaro dismisses the "committee of investigation" in these words:

"When four out of five of the members of the committee responsible for investigating grievances related to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements have obvious biases in this area, it seems clear to me that the investigation is a travesty. I think Mr. Dershowitz’s view of the committee says it best: `Asking pro-Israel Jewish students to present their grievances to the committee members who signed the divestiture petition would be like asking African-American students to present grievances to a committee that included David Duke.”

Gennaro goes on:

"In my view, the problem with MEALAC is that it is little more than an anti-Israel propaganda mill whose professors engage in indoctrination, not academic discourse. Columbia’s greatest failure is that it insists on denying this underlying problem. And, as this latest episode has shown, even when outside pressure compels an examination of MEALAC, Columbia focuses not on the root problem, but on other issues which are essentially symptoms of the deeper disease. … It is my hope that the leadership and trustees of Columbia will ultimately come to their senses, stop the MEALAC propaganda mill, and once again merit generous support. Until then, however, I urge supporters of Columbia to send their money elsewhere."