The following is via OnlySimchas.com:
As the world began to mourn the passing of Elie Wiesel on Saturday, with heart-felt eulogies and personal tributes from heads of state to friends, a famous Israel-basher took the opportunity to disparage and defame the intellectual icon.
Max Blumenthal — senior writer for AlterNet and author of Goliath and The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, a virulently anti-Israel book about Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014 – took to Twitter to say, “Elie Wiesel is dead. He spent his last years inciting hatred, defending apartheid & palling around with fascists.”
Wiesel, he wrote, “did more harm than good and should not be honored.”
In a series of additonal tweets in the aftermath of the announcement that Wiesel had died, Blumenthal — whose close association with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was revealed in the batches of emails released from her server over the past year– proceeded to explain his antipathy to the beloved chronicler of Nazi atrocities, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2013.
He “went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them,” wrote Blumenthal, referring to Wiesel’s staunch support for Israel.
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Should put a Lotion Hora warning in the title.
Are you sure you are not confusing Max Blumenthal with Sydney Blumenthal? The latter is a close associate of Clinton, not Max Blumenthal.
Linking the Clintons to this slimeball shows some headline writer has an agenda. Both Bill and Hillary have long been closely associated with Wiesel and he was awarded by the President on multiple occasions. It would be better if these kinds of articles are clearly labeled as “editorials”.i
if this was a bush associate they would be faulting bush for his association