–Bollinger shot down an invitation from leading school officials to Ahmadinejad a year ago, censoring a point of view that scholars wanted to hear. He has nobly reversed that judgment.
–Ahmadinejad will be traveling to the heart of the Jewish intellectual world in Manhattan. Bollinger is sure to engage him on issues of concern to Jews: his Holocaust denial, his threats to Israel, and the meaning of his famous phrase, wiped from the pages of history. There may actually be some meaningful dialogue (I pray).
–Americans may learn some things from Ahmadinejad. How Iran sympathized with us after 9/11 and supported our (completely justified) invasion of Afghanistan. How the large Iranian-Jewish community is treated. The significance of the Palestinian experience to the Islamic world…
