Again I’m struck by the fact that a person as oafish as Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld is on the board of trustees of CUNY. And why is he on the board? Because of Jewish money, as Wiesenfeld has himself stated. There is a ton of conservative Jewish money out there, and universities want to cultivate it. Thus the presence of this lout on the board.

From Pulse, emails that Wiesenfeld has sent to Tali Shapiro, who had angered Wiesenfeld by signing a letter to the CUNY board protesting Tony Kushner’s treatment…

“They’ll stab you with the same knives as the Fogels when they get a chance. Now go see a Tony Kushner play in Damascus, Tehran, Beirut, wherever you want… “It is clear that you are a deeply unhappy person. There is help for you from qualified medical professionals at many locations in Israel, but if they are unable to cure you of your deep self-hatred that you live in the Jewish state of Israel, then there are many fine neighboring states that know how to treat a Jew…”

Another interesting aspect of the Wiesenfeld case is, If this guy cares so much about Israel, why doesn’t he live there? And the answer is that Israel depends on diaspora support, this is completely understood inside Israel and the Israel lobby too–and denied when critics seek to address the lobby’s power — and Wiesenfeld can feel that he is playing an honorable role in the U.S. as a guardian of Israel.