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(IsraelNN.com) "We are appalled at and condemn the naivety and superficiality of the justifications that have been advanced by [Columbia University president] Lee Bollinger for inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to address" the university, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein said Monday. 

He charged that Bollinger "would be blocking the entry" of racist David Dukes if he were to address the university but still insisted on inviting the Iranian president to restate his attacks on Israel, which he has should be eliminated. "Bollinger is giving a podium and an aura of respectability to this genocidal-minded Holocaust denier," Klein stated.

The ZOA and other organizations are sponsoring a protest rally shortly before Ahmadinejad's planned speech Monday.