Just who exactly is the SIPA dean who invited Ahmadinejad?

it's all starting to make sense, in that grotesque sort of way.....

Coatsworth is part of the cabal, i.e. Hamas/Hezbollah's Amen corner in the US


Columbia appoints another anti-Israel Dean
by Jerry Gordon

When former Dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Lisa Anderson resigned in a huff and returned to the faculty after the kerfuffle of her inviting Mad Mahdist Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on the eve of Rosh Ha Shanah last fall, you might have thought things might improve with appointment of her successor. Not the case. Instead, Professor John H. Coatsworth, currently Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center got the nod. Coatsworth is a noted scholar on Latin American economic and international history and past President of the American Historical Association.

Notwithstanding his Latin Americn expertise, Professor Coatsworth signed the anti-Israel Harvard divestment petition.

While at Chicago University in 1990, Professor Coatsworth weighed in on a Chicago public library controversy regarding a reading list put together by a virulently anti-Israel librarian, David Williams and contested by the ADL. Coatsworth, chairman of the University of Chicago history department at the time wrote the head of Chicago’s library commission: “For the general reader, Williams [the anti-Israel librarian at the center of the controversy] has put together an extremely useful and carefully balanced works on this important topic. As usual, Mr. Williams work conforms to the highest standards of professionalism. Criticisms by groups like [the ADL} with strongly partisan sympathies in respect to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict should, in my judgment, be dismissed out of hand.”
Having attended patently anti-Israel events at Columbia’s SIPA, Professor Coatsworth will no doubt be welcomed with open arms by like minded faculty. People like Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad and the shame of sister institution Barnard College, Nadia Abu El-Haj
Sic gloria transit my alma mater, Columbia.