Elie Wiesel[12]. As a student in Sorbonne, Wiesel translated from Hebrew to Yiddish for the Irgun newspaper (November 1947 – January 1949).

That said, Wiesel, has really been discredited a long time ago in my eyes; there are a lot of global issues where the US could have made an impact and I don’t see Wiesel making an impact or devoting much attention to many of them. Spending lots of time and energy and being paid for telling us that the Holocaust was evil or why we should support Israel does not strike me as where much attention is needed. I always thought moral figures who seek to speak out on the international stage should try and give some ‘voice to the voiceless’ not back the powerful. Backing out of a genocide conference which was to include a discussion of the Armenian genocide – the first modern genocide and one which was explicitly referred to y Hitler – under Israeli pressure to avoid giving offence to their Turkish allies, was appalling and disgusting and to me was the last straw, indicating that this individual has no moral backbone to stand up for what is right, even when it might entail personal and social discomfiture.

Of course, inconvenient to your jibe here is the fact, pointed out by Richard, that his blog gets far more readership and traffic than your far right-wing blog does.

Once the corrupting, distortive influence/pressure on American foreign policy is successfully countered, and once the effective guilt-tripping of Germany to get her to toe the line on Israel ceases to be effective, the Western world will more uniformly isolate Israel until she decides to behave in a humane, at least somewhat civilized manner toward her neighbors and currently (illegally) occupied ‘subjects’. It’s a matter of time, but as time passes, the occupied Palestinians continue to suffer horribly, particularly in blockaded Gaza.