Anti-Israel activists attempt to vilify Elie Wiesel after his death

[ericson00]

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Anti-Israel-activists-attempt-to-vilify-Elie-Wiesel-after-his-death-459394

As news of Elie Wiesel's passing reverberated around the world, there was an outpouring of tributes, quotations, and homages honoring his life and works. So too, however, did the news bring out a select few, seeking to vilify and defame his legacy.

Most notably, pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal...took to Twitter less than an hour after the announcement and said:

“Elie Wiesel is dead. He spent his last years inciting hatred, defending apartheid & palling around with fascists.”

He continued with a series of tweets posting links to articles citing that Elie Wiesel "denied Armenian genocide" and "repeatedly lauded Jewish settlers for ethnically cleansing Palestinians in East Jerusalem."

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Among them Ali Abuminah, co-founder of the Palestinian advocacy site Electronic Intifada who also took to Twitter and wrote: “Those who praise Elie Wiesel without mentioning his deep ethnic hatred for Palestinians are as hypocritical and vacuous as he was."

Disgusting and shameful. Elie Wiesel is an honourable hero.

[King_David]

1. What disgusting disgraceful creeps.

Shame on them,they don't deserve to even be mentioned in the same article as Ellie Wiesel.


Max Blumenthal is a jerk and Ali Abumineh was born in Chicago , is as American as you and I and has a very elevated view of his self importance and his tiny footprint which is even more minuscule compared to Elie Wiesel.

[Little Tich]

2. I think it's disrespectful to criticize the recently dead.

People should have time to mourn and pay their respects - if anyone has something bad they want to say about Elie Wiesel, they can wait.

[ericson00]

3. I hope you said that about Hallel Ariel's detractors

because the hate against her was pretty vicious, as was this equating settlements with jihadist terrorism.

[6chars]

4. Time for Hillary to throw the little sh*t Blumenthal under the bus

He is the son of her close advisor Sidney Blumenthal, and she has had kind words about him in the past.

Hillary has clearly stated her support for Israel and she really doesn't need this loser in her sphere.

[ericson00]

5. agreed. Max Blumenthal is a huge blight

on anything progressive, and he's fodder for the GOP and Trump.

[shira]

9. Max Blumenthal was very respectful of Hedy Epstein's death...

https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/735911977604812804

Hailing her as an inspiration, crusading for human rights....

Max's kind of holocaust survivor (although she was in Britain at the time).

The same Hedy Epstein who was a big fan of vile jew hating Rightwing bigot Alison Weir of IfAmericansKnew.

[bluestateguy]

6. Disgustng

[shira]

7. The Mondoweiss sewer is villifying Eli Wiesel too...

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/elie-wiesel-is-dead/

Their kind of Holocaust survivor is Hedy Epstein, big fan of the Jew hating Nazi Alison Weir (IfAmericansKnew):
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/05/holocaust-survivor-activist/

Alison Weir wrote about Epstein:

The last time I saw Hedy was a few months ago.

After the JVP-USCEIO attacks on me, Hedy signed the Open Letter supporting me and calling for an end to such destructive and divisive attacks. I was truly honored that Hedy chose to do this, and saddened that she then came under attack herself when she refused to give in to pressure by USCEIO leaders to remove her name. In fact, rather than bend to their demands, Hedy arranged an official library talk for me at the St. Louis Main Library, and the room was full.

Talk about being on the wrong side of history.

[leftynyc]

8. Vile pieces of shit

that aren't fit to have wiped Wiesel's ass.

[Israeli]

10. I know you refuse to read 972 ......

.....what about Israellycool......?????

http://www.israellycool.com/2016/07/03/manufactured-outrage-and-max-blumenthals-hidden-horror/

They are the English version of Right versus Left on the net ......neither of them come close .

Nobody over here gives a damn about Max Blumenthal or Brian of London ....most Israelis have never heard of either of them .

To us they are the same as Richard Silverstein of Tikun Olam ......alll ego and paka paka .

But .....if you pay attention .....they support Trump over Clinton .....and if I was a Democrat that would bother me more than anything anyone had to say about Elie Wiesel.

[leftynyc]

11. Why would I care who they support?

This thread is about Weisel - any particular reason you want to change the subject?

[Israeli]

12. Nope .....

But if you guys are going to bring up the " The Mondoweiss sewer " ..... I just thought it was fair to bring up the " Israellycool sewer " .

[leftynyc]

13. I don't read either one

and I said nothing about mondoweiss.

[Israeli]

15. You dont read " either one " .....and you dont read 972 ....

Geez leftynyc...........where do you read ?????????

[leftynyc]

16. I will use smaller words for you

I don't read mondoweiss and I don't read israel is cool. Is that simple enough for you? You already know I think 972 is nothing but a joke. Are you claiming you HAVE to read unsourced blogs to know what's going on?

[Israeli]

17. I dont need to read any blogs ," unsourced " or not , ....

...." to know what's going on? " leftynyc.

[shira]

14. It's about honesty & accuracy...not propaganda & hate. n/t

[Israeli]

18. Which one shira ????

" The Mondoweiss sewer " .....or the " Israellycool sewer " ?????????

[King_David]

19. Mondoweiss has supported both Donald Trump

And Anne Coulter ....

[shira]

21. Those attacking Wiesel never condemn Abbas for Holocaust Denial.

Nor for his recent incitement and praise of terrorism vs. Jews.

Tells you all you need to know, really.

[shira]

20. Eli Wiesel on Palestinians...

Wiesel did not shy away from denouncing what he saw as intransigent and extremist elements within Palestinian leadership and society, writing in 2001: “After seeing on television, during the Intifada, the faces of young Palestinians twisted with hate, it is more difficult than ever before for me to believe in the Palestinians’ will for peace. It is not that they want a smaller Israel; they want no Israel at all.”

He acknowledged the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and emphasized his hope for a just end to the conflict. “I have seen their children in the Gaza refugee camps; their fate can leave none of us indifferent. It is imperative that we resolve this problem,” he observed. But he challenged arguments that the solution to this crisis lay in the immigration of millions of Palestinians to Israel.

“The Palestinians also insist on ‘the right of return’ for more than three million refugees,” he noted. “On this question, Israel is united in its refusal. It may be necessary to recall the history of this Palestinian tragedy. In 1947 Israel accepted the plan for the division of Palestine; the Arabs rejected it. In 1948, David Ben-Gurion reached out to what was to be the Palestinian state. Not only did the Arabs reject the proffered hand; they sent six armies to strangle the newly born Jewish state,” he wrote. “The solution of a mass return is unthinkable. To many Israelis, that would be tantamount to suicide, just as cutting Jerusalem from its roots would be spiritual suicide.”

“And yet,” Wiesel added, “Though all options appear to have been exhausted, peace remains our single common hope; violence and war have filled too many cemeteries on both sides. This cannot and must not go on. Most Israelis feel is I do: Palestinians must have the right to live freely and with dignity, without fear and without shame. It is incumbent upon the world and Israel to do everything to help them and to do so in ways that do not make them lose face. I am particularly concerned with the Israeli Arabs. They are citizens of Israel, and their civic rights must be protected at all costs.”

Wiesel repeated his hopes in a 2014 print advertisement denouncing Hamas for using children as human shields and called on the terror organization to stop the practice. “Palestinian parents want a hopeful future for their children, just like Israeli parents do. And both should be joining together in peace.”

http://www.thetower.org/3597-israel-bashers-smear-late-holocaust-survivor-and-human-rights-advocate-elie-wiesel/

More Eli Wiesel:

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”

[shira]

22. Clinton Campaign Condemns Anti-Zionist Journalist, Son of Close Advisor

“Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy aide to the Clinton campaign, said in a statement to The Jerusalem Post.

She believes they are wrong in all senses of the term. She believes that Max Blumenthal and others should cease and desist in making them. Elie Wiesel was a hero to her as he was to so many, and she will keep doing everything she can to honor his memory and to carry his message forward.

In contrast to Blumenthal’s claims, Weisel was a vocal advocate on behalf of victims of the Armenian genocide, the denial of which Wiesel repeatedly called a “double killing.”

In 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published a letter condemning Armenian genocide denial, which was signed by Wiesel and 52 other Nobel laureates:

More hateful lies of Blumenthal and Abunimah exposed...
http://www.thetower.org/3601-clinton-campaign-condemns-anti-zionist-journalist-son-of-close-advisor/

[King_David]

24. Good for Hillary

Blumenthal is a disrespectful bigot.