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Philadelphia Writer Rachel SmithBard Launches HubPages Web Site

Writer and human rights activist, Rachel Smith-Bard has launched her own page on the popular HubPages web forums. Using the screen name, Ahmadinejad, Smith-Bard is initially taking up the cause of Bnai Haman, a volunteer group of Columbia University alumni and concerned citizens who continue to protest the speech of Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on campus on September 24, 2007.

Smith-Bard's posts can be found at http://hubpages.com/profile/Ahmadinejad.

Although Smith-Bard is not Jewish, she says she is impressed by the commitment of Bnai Haman members to hold Columbia responsible for giving a forum to Ahmadinejad, who is anti-women, anti-gay, anti-American and anti-Semitic. She launched her HubPages site, she explains, to help further the Bnai Haman effort.

"I would be just as outraged if Columbia had invited the head of the KKK or any avowed racist to speak," said Smith-Bard. "But Ahmadinejad goes well beyond hate talk. He takes actions, hanging his political opponents, stoning women and gathering in nuclear weapons to pulverize Israel."

Smith-Bard is a full-time writer, publishing short stories, plays and other creative works. Her most recent play, History Remembers, debuted at a community theater workshop in suburban Philadelphia last month.

The writer said she was one of many who made the trip to New York last September to protest the Ahmadinejad speech. "I knew I had my work cut out for me when I heard the warm applause that Columbia's students and faculty gave to Ahmadinejad," Smith-Bard writes. "For me to let that pass would be to deny my own heritage and everything that right thinking people stand for."

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