Bnai Haman was founded by Columbia University School of Journalism alumnus Dean Rotbart. The group’s mission is to educate other universities and academic institutions about the serious price to be paid for providing a platform to any world leader who advocates hate, prejudice and genocide. The group selected its name, Bnai Haman, to emphasize the fact that like the evil Haman, a 6th Century Persian who plotted to kill all Jews, Iran’s Ahmadinejad has expressed the wish to wipe Israel off the map.