Sadly, this tendency has become true of a onetime hero of mine, Elie Wiesel, with whom I produced a TV pilot for public television. (I didn't have the heart to tell him that the station, WNET in New York, rejected the series because they thought his accent would limit is appeal. Too Jewish? That smelled like antisemitsm to me at the time.)
Wiesel, whose books turned him into the moral Ambassador for World Jewry because of his reputation as a powerful speaker and holocaust survivor, now is Israel's #1 defender without every really disclosing how right wing his politics have become.
According to the Electronic Intifada, "Wiesel has been a chair of the advisory board of Elad, a group of fanatical religious Israeli setters actively involved in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the eastern sector of occupied Jerusalem."
Now Wiesel is leading a a campaign to further demonize Palestinians.
Press Release: "Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has released a stirring advertising campaign that is accusing Hamas of child sacrifice. Along with Nobel Peace Laureate, Elie Wiesel, the ads will run in leading American publications including: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, as well as an extensive social media campaign.
This World Founder Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, stated, "Our purpose is to bring one of the greatest moral voices of our time and one of the most respected human beings alive, who bore witness to the atrocities of genocide and the Holocaust, to respond to the ugly and fraudulent criticisms of Israel and call for an end to the genocidal aspirations of Hamas."
These ads have triggered a press controversy with the usually conservative Murdoch owned title, The Times, refusing to run it it while the usually progressive Guardian carrying it in England. Palestinians call it an incitement to genocide and question its accuracy.
The Israeli Writer, Gilad Alzmon, blasts Wiesel, a personality who until now is usually revered as a human rights hero.
"The ad's headline reads: "Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago. Now it's Hamas' turn." Wiesel's statement is a blatant lie and the London Times knew it.
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