New York – The Clinton campaign on Tuesday slammedthe recent comments made by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal regarding the late Elie Wiesel.
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“Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said in a statement to The Jerusalem Post.
Sullivan released the statement following aPost report from earlier this week on anti-Israel activists who attempted to vilify Wiesel after his death.
“She believes they are wrong in all senses of the term. She believes that Max Blumenthal and others should cease and desist in making them,” Sullivan said.
He added: “Elie Wiesel was a hero to her as he was to so many, and she will keep doing everything she can to honor his memory and to carry his message forward.
Blumenthal is the son of longtime Hillary Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, though he himself is not related to her campaign.
Less than an hour after the announcement of Wiesel’s passing he took to Twitter and said:
“Elie Wiesel is dead. He spent his last years inciting hatred, defending apartheid & palling around with fascists.”
He continued with a series of tweets posting links to articles citing that Elie Wiesel “denied Armenian genocide” and “repeatedly lauded Jewish settlers for ethnically cleansing Palestinians in East Jerusalem.”
He then tweeted: “Elie Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them. He did more harm than good and should not be honored.”
Blumenthal was joined in his denigration by other pro-Palestinian activists.
Despite the attempts at defamation, the tweets came in stark contrast to the majority of outpourings from world leaders, public figures, and countless people touched by Wiesel’s works who offered their praises and expressed their mourning on social media and beyond.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Another lowlife!
Wow…she must be desperate.
I’d feel better if she also got rid of the father.
Kudos to Hillary for condemning a (former) supporter.
“Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements …”
When will The Donald say something about David Duke?
Anything?
Jewish capos
this non-Jew (shiksa mother) has a chip on his shoulder regarding his obvious Jewish name and looks.
Zohl ehr hobbin a meesa mesheena bkarov byomainu!
He is a little punk.
Yet Hillary will still employ him and his antisemetic father!
Hitlary Clinton you are evil
This miserable poor excuse of a human being is thank G-D, NOTJewish, I repeat, thank G-D, NOT Jewish. His father, the Loser is Jewish, sad to say.
May they both rest in pieces!
Max B is as loathsome as they come. He is the son of a self hater and they are the worst. Self haters spend a huge amount of time and energy denigrating their background and culture and history and countrymen because it makes them feel better. They have to explain to themselves why they left/turned coat.
Jewish self haters are the absolute worst because they grab onto all things Jewish that are bad and try to justify each and every action to their own. Jews owned slaves in the Antebellum South (like everyone else)? Then Israel has no right to defend itself against Hamas rockets.
Maxie here grew up on this father’s hatred and like most children of self haters (who happen to also be distant, bad parents), he clung to Jew hatred to explain his father’s absences and deficiencies. He wrote a book about Israel in which he tries to paint almost every Jew as evil; patriotic and Zionist Sephardim and Ethiopians are “white trash;” and Arabs are noble to the point of sainthood. It was so poorly written that i put it down at B&N after maybe 10 pages.
He hates Elie Wiesel bc he represented everything that people like the Blumenthals hate: Jewish pride; patriotism; humanity, love and talent.