Richard Falk, a former UN "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories" and antisemite has been invited to deliver the annual Edward Said lecture at the Columbia University Heyman Center for the Humanities on October 20, 2014.
His credentials? Falk has glorified Ayatollah Khomeini as a "true revolutionary", publicly supported investigating theories that the 9/11 was an "inside job", analogized Israeli actions to that of the Nazis, and defended the Boston marathon bombing.