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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Silverstein has published Tikun Olam since 2003, It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He lives in Seattle, but his heart is in the east. He publishes regularly at Middle East Eye and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
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.
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.
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.
With the middle east in such a volatile state, and the issue of Iran so dangerous, meddlers like Wiesel do nothing but exacerbate tension.
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?
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….