- Elie Wiesel vs Encyclopaedia Britannic
- Time Magazine, March 18 1985:
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- 'How had he [Wiesel] survived two of the most notorious
killing fields [Auschwitz and Buchenwald] of the century? "I will
never know" he says. "I was always weak. I never ate. The slightest
wind would turn me over. In Buchenwald they sent 10,000 to their deaths
every day. I was always in the last hundred near the gate. They stopped.
Why?"
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- Compare this with Encyclopaedia Britannica (1993), under
'Buchenwald':
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- "In World War II it held about 20,000 prisoners..
Although there were no gas chambers, hundreds perished monthly through
disease, malnutrition, exhaustion, beatings and executions."
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- (Wiesel has been a prominent spokesman for the very substantial
group of people known as Holocaust survivors. (According to Norman Finkelstein
of the City University of New York in his book The Holocaust Industry,
published in 2000, 'The Israeli Prime Minister's office recently put the
number of "living Holocaust survivors" at nearly a million.'
(p.83)) Wiesel has chaired the US Holocaust Memorial Council and has been
the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and Nobel Peace Prize.)
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- http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0199/9901055.html
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- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | January/February
1999
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- "A Terrible Fraud" - Wiesel Ignores Palestinians
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- To the Jerusalem Post, Oct. 9, 1998 (as submitted).
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- (From Prof. Daniel McGowan, Professor of Economics at
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY)
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- In your Oct. 9 article on Elie Wiesel, the American icon
of Holocaust survivors, he is paid a special tribute as a "speaker
of truth." This is the same Elie Wiesel who is continually referred
to by Noam Chomsky and others as "a terrible fraud." What can
explain such disparity of opinion?
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- Perhaps it is because Wiesel, who has written literally
volumes Against Silence, remains silent when it comes to such issues involving
Palestinians as land expropriation, torture and abrogation of basic human
rights.
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- Perhaps it is because Elie Wiesel proclaims with great
piety that "the opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference,"
while he remains totally indifferent to the inequality and suffering of
the Palestinians. Perhaps it is because he enjoys recognition as "one
of the first opponents of apartheid" in South Africa, while he remains
totally silent and indifferent to the apartheid being practiced today in
Israel.
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- Perhaps it is because he decries terrorism, yet never
apologizes for the terrorism perpetrated by the Irgun at Deir Yassin on
April 9, 1948. He refuses even to comment on it. He dismisses this act
of terrorism in eight short words in his memoirs, All Rivers Run to the
Sea. He remembers the Jewish victims at Kielce, Poland (July 1946) with
great anguish, but ignores twice as many Palestinian victims of his own
employer at Deir Yassin. The irony is breathtaking.
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- It is even more shocking that the world's best known
Holocaust survivor can repeatedly visit Yad Vashem and yet keep silent
about the victims of Deir Yassin who lie within his sight 1,400 meters
to the north. He bitterly protests when Jewish graves are defaced, but
has nothing to say when the cemetery of Deir Yassin is bulldozed. He refuses
even to acknowledge repeated requests that he join a group of Jews and
non-Jews who wish to build a memorial at Deir Yassin.
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- Elie Wiesel may profess modesty and claim he is "not
a symbol of anything" but, unfortunately, he has become a symbol of
hypocrisy.
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- -- Daniel A. McGowan, Director, Deir Yassin Remembered,
Geneva, NY
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- From another source:
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- "(Norman Finkelstein (author of the book The Holocaust
Industry) has even called Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the "resident clown" of the Holocaust
circus."
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- http://www.RePortersNoteBook.com
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