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“I resent the argument that we needed a Holocaust for Israel,” Wiesel said. “It seems like it is a reward for suffering. No. Even Israel isn’t enough compensation.”Alison Weir recently described similar sentiments among Israeli Jewish doctors and black market organ traders:
Wiesel and the vast majority of Jewish Zionists never address what Jews would owe non-Jews for the last 150 years of massive financial fraud and heinous murder or mayhem.In her Forum 13 lecture Scheper-Hughes discussed the two motivations of Israeli traffickers. One was greed, she said. The other was somewhat chilling: "Revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust."
She described speaking with Israeli brokers who told her "it's kind of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We're going to get every single kidney and liver and heart that we can. The world owes it to us.'"
Scheper-Hughes says that she "even heard doctors saying that."
This recent history of Jewish barbarism both in Europe and also in the ME includes targeted assassinations, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
Absolutely and relatively Jews have inflicted far more suffering on non-Jews than Jews experienced during WW2 (jewish financial aggression, worldwide economic nakba, jewish peril 1933 versus 2009).
Wiesel scorns Holocaust deniers and revisionists. Yet as a completely ethically clueless Jewish Zionist, he is a Nakba denier and never worries that it might have been wrong to steal Palestine from its native population, which had neither genuine involvement in the Holocaust and nor even much history of contact with European Jews.
Wiesel's mentality is probably a variant on the thinking of the Lubavitcher movement, to which Wiesel is very close.
A very small but significant minority of Israelis, including military officers and governmental ministers, hold extremist supremacist views relevant to organ extraction. In 1996, Jewish Week reported that Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, a leader of the Lubavitch sect of Judaism and the dean of a religious Jewish school in a West Bank settlement, stated: "If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that." Ginzburgh elaborated: "Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life." [The Jewish Week, April 26, 1996, pp. 12, 31]
Evan Caughey Elie Wiesel speaks to Boston University students as a part of an open forum about peace and human rights at the Hillel House on Monday Night.
Elie Wiesel answers student questions in open forum
Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Those who deny the Holocaust are not only unworthy of any respect, but Boston University professor Elie Wiesel said at a forum Monday that he chooses to disregard them completely.
“These people are mentally and morally deranged,” Wiesel said. “They are not a part of my world.”
Holocaust survivor and noted author Wiesel answered questions concerning his experiences with the Holocaust, his thoughts on Israel and his aspirations for the Jewish community and education to a group of over 100 attendees gathered for Wiesel’s 33rd Open Forum at the Hillel House.
Wiesel emphasized that teachers must be paid higher salaries and should instill a passion for learning within students.
“My greatest accomplishment is my classroom,“ he said. “I would pay the students to come.”
Wiesel said fifth grade students may be too young to hear the Holocaust’s message.
“I don’t think we should impose it on children so young,” Wiesel said. “It’s counterproductive and young children must be ready, eager, willing to learn.”
When talking about how the Holocaust is portrayed on screen, Wiesel explained that even all the films depicting the Holocaust never teach him anything new.
“I only favor documentaries, not films,” Wiesel said. “I read all the books on the subject of the Holocaust and I have never learned something I didn’t know about. That never happens.”
Even the creation of Israel is not reimbursement enough for the horrors and deaths of the Holocaust, and the only thing that might be is the coming of the Messiah, Wiesel said.
“I resent the argument that we needed a Holocaust for Israel,” Wiesel said. “It seems like it is a reward for suffering. No. Even Israel isn’t enough compensation.”
Wiesel suggested there be a day of fasting in commemoration of those who lost their lives in the Holocaust, Wiesel said.
“In the past, whenever a community suffered, they proclaimed a fast day,” he said.
On a lighter note, Wiesel also discussed his interests growing up.
“As a child, I was only interested in Jewish subjects,” he said. “Today I read Plato and Shakespeare and enjoy it.”
Audience members said they attended the forum for different reasons but overall enjoyed Wiesel’s insight.
“Having read the book in high school, I wasn’t about to pass up the opportunity to meet Elie Wiesel,” College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Parul Agarwal said about the book “Night.”
School of Education junior Dana Ellis said she was also inspired by Wiesel’s book “Night” because she feels a connection to his story and chose to attend the event because Wiesel is “enlightening.”
“My grandfather is also a Holocaust survivor so I connected to it on a very deep level,” she said. “His work has inspired me to further read about the Holocaust.”
College of Communication freshman Christopher Walker said he had never heard Wiesel speak before the forum.
“I thought he was very witty and the forum was very interesting,” he said “I had always read his books and I was still mesmerized.”
