Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal)

Mahzor

Mahzor

New York Public Library

Churches

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Sarajevo haggadah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

Action

Torah as music

Ben Heine

Action

ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

Action

Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

Action

David Grossman

Ben Heine

Action

Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

Action

Dove

Ben Heine

Action

Two birds

Hoda Jamal

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Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

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Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

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Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

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Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Action

Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

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Joint Appeal for Peace

(Avi Katz)

Joint Appeal for Peace

Ketubah, Ancona, Italy (1772)

(Jewish Theological Seminary library)

Ancona ketubah

Elie Wiesel, Moral Mercenary

Wiesel, Hagee and Israeli minister Uzi Landau (within whose retinue several Mossad agents are reputed to have entered Dubai to assassinate a Hamas operative)

Did you know morality is for sale?  No?  Well, as far as Elie Wiesel is concerned it is.  If the Palestinians had $500,000 THEY might find moral favor in Elie’s eyes as well.  You see, since Bernie Madoff blew Wiesel’s foundation assets, I guess he’s found a need to sell his scruples to the highest bidder.  Last year that would’ve been John Hagee, before whose Christians United for Israel conference Wiesel pronounced the anti-Semite and homophobe his “dear pastor” (see video):

For delivering one speech to Hagee’s congregation, Wiesel received a check for $500,000 toward his foundation, according to Marita Styrsky, the wife of Christians United for Israel Eastern Regional Director Victor Styrsky (Christians United is Hagee’s lobbying arm).

To be fair, CUFI wouldn’t call this an honorarium or speaker’s fee.  For them it was a donation for a good cause.  But you and I both know that were it not for the cool half-mill, Elie would’ve told Hagee to take a powder.

It makes you wonder what and who might be paying (if anyone is) for Wiesel’s activism against Iran?  Or is that based on “pure” moral principles as opposed to mercenary moral principles?  Perhaps Ahmadinejad ought to invite Wiesel to give a lecture in Teheran for a mill.  Maybe Wiesel would change his point of view.

And the next time you hear of some good deed performed by the Elie Wiesel Foundation remember it’s probably funded by a man who said that Hitler was half-Jewish and doing the work of the Lord, John Hagee.

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6 Responses to “Elie Wiesel, Moral Mercenary”

  1. mary says:

    Elie Wiesel is an insult to the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. He has decided that he can sell that memory even to the likes of Hagee. A shame.

  2. Shirin says:

    Elie Wiesel may or may not have had principles at some point in his life, but that was a very long time ago. He is little more than a professional Holocaust survivor for hire, and as a humanitarian he is one of the biggest frauds walking.

  3. Crimson Ghost says:

    Wiesel’s ideological twin, Abe Foxman, has just issued a “report card” on Obama at a recent ADL conference in Palm Beach.

    The President got an an A for effort, a C minus for strategy and an F for results.

    Can anyone doubt that Obama’s “grades” would soar were he to attack Iran.

  4. mary says:

    With the middle east in such a volatile state, and the issue of Iran so dangerous, meddlers like Wiesel do nothing but exacerbate tension.

    • Shirin says:

      Oh, how can you SAY that, Mary?! Elie Wiesel is all about peace and humanity. He won the Nobel PEACE Prize. Didn’t you KNOW that?

      • mary says:

        OH my BAD!!! Peace and humanity, but only for one group of people…HIS group….the Nobel Peace Prize seems to go to some odd recipients sometimes, doesn’t it? Shimon Peres and Barack Obama come to mind….

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