Every year since 2001, Yale University has offered World Fellows scholarships to an international group of mid-career stand-outs. This year, one such stand-out is May Tony Akl, the foreign press secretary to Michel Aoun.

Aoun is a controversial Maronite leader who since the Cedar Revolution has become Hezbollah’s closest ally and apologist. Indeed, according to the Iranian press, just last week and in the wake of the SCUD revelations, Aoun was defending Hezbollah rearmament.

So, Yale continues to ban the ROTC and military recruitment on campus (because the military discriminates against gays) but welcomes Hezbollah affiliates (who also discriminate against gays?). Most people, besides perhaps Fareed Zakaria, believe free speech should be sacrosanct at Yale, but that does not mean it should supplant judgment.

At the very least, alumni should consider using their free speech to criticize the Yale administration’s judgment and perhaps become a little tighter with their pocketbooks.