Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
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Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#2A sad day. Although much of what he wrote was controversial, he remains my favorite author I was assigned to read in three separate occasions in high school.
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#3Wow. I was fortunate to be doing my undergrad in Boston at a time when you could hear talks by Weisel, Zinn and Chomsky. I didn't always agree with him but he was an intellectual treasure.
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#4curious to read comments about controversial statements from eli wiesel... what coule those have been ??
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#5Without disrespecting his memory, we should not forget that Wiesel lent serious support to the occupation and, what is effectively, the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. Haaretz touches on this:
"In April 2010, he took out advertisements in four major newspapers, criticizing the Obama administration for pressuring the Netanyahu government to halt construction in Jewish neighborhoods located across the Green Line in East Jerusalem."
For me, as an Israeli Jew, I find him too compromised by nationalism to bother with. I'd much rather read Primo Levi or Paul Celan.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Opinions_about_Jer...
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#6curious to read comments about controversial statements from eli wiesel... what coule those have been ??
The one that stands out (for me) is Eli's question after God let the Jews die in the Holocaust - "What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy?''"
Eli's question is a continuation of the theological "Problem of Evil": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
As a person of faith, Eli's question is still haunting in it's note of despair.
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#7Without disrespecting his memory, we should not forget that Wiesel lent serious support to the occupation and, what is effectively, the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. Haaretz touches on this: "In April 2010, he took out advertisements in four major newspapers, criticizing the Obama administration for pressuring the Netanyahu government to halt construction in Jewish neighborhoods located across the Green Line in…
If Israel is ethnically cleansing Jerusalem they are doing a pretty poor job considering that the Muslim population has
gone from 54,963 in 1967 to 281,000 in 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusal...
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#8A sad day. Although much of what he wrote was controversial, he remains my favorite author I was assigned to read in three separate occasions in high school.
What was the controversy about?
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#9Without disrespecting his memory, we should not forget that Wiesel lent serious support to the occupation and, what is effectively, the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. Haaretz touches on this: "In April 2010, he took out advertisements in four major newspapers, criticizing the Obama administration for pressuring the Netanyahu government to halt construction in Jewish neighborhoods located across the Green Line in…
Wow. Building homes is one hell of an ethnic cleansing operation.
Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87
#10Baruch dayan emet. When I was a young boy I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Wiesel and chat with him for a while about his book 'Night', an life in general. He was one of the warmest, most intelligent and interesting people I've ever met.