Source: The Times of Israel

This week 327 people demonstrated that having survived the Holocaust or being related to Holocaust survivors certainly does not mean you have any moral wisdom.

On August 23, 2014 43 alleged survivors of the Holocaust and 284 alleged descendants of Holocaust survivors, on behalf of the mendacious International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), placed an advertisement in the NY Times attacking Eli Wiesel for his, in their own words,

“manipulation of the Nazi Genocide” and then went on, again in their own words, to express their alleged alarm at the “extreme, racist, dehumanization of Palestinians in Israel” and called for an end to the “ongoing genocide of Palestinian people.”

In addition to being an outrageous attack on one of the great literary and moral heroes of our time, Eli Wiesel (a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom), this letter demonstrates that surviving the Holocaust and (merely) being related to someone that survived the Holocaust grants you no moral wisdom and certainly does not make you a moral authority. What it does mean, or at least should mean, is that you are incredibly blessed to have survived or to have your ancestors survive one of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity and that you owe it to yourself and the world to live a life of moral clarity and integrity. In that respect, these 327 people and their supporters at IJAN have failed grotesquely and despicably.

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