Elie Wiesel

Moment Magazine: A great gift idea!

Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Tracing the Tribe loves Moment Magazine. Each issue has excellent interesting articles, many of which are noted in this blog. See what's in the current issue . It is the world's largest independent Jewish magazine. Founded by Elie Wiesel and Leonard Fein in 1975, and then relaunched in 2004 and recently has improved even more with a great mix of writers and topics. Moment is offering a great Chanukah...

Dracula is Dead - Review

At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Dracula is Dead: How Romanians Survived Communism, Ended It, and Emerged since 1989 as the New Italy by Sheilah Kast & Jim Rosapepe Publisher: Bancroft Press ISBN: 9781890862657 400 Pages (Hardcover) Nonfiction Summary (from the front flap): In December 1989, Romanians overthrew dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, ending more than forty years of Communist totalitarianism. Twenty years later, Romania is...

Schadenfreude again over David Irving

Respectful Insolence (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

Since I seem to have attracted several truly idiotic Holocaust deniers in the comments after this post , including, believe it or not, Eric Hunt , the anti-Semite who attacked Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel in 2007 and who now runs a blog full of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism where he recently bragged about attending an appearance by arch-Holocaust denier David Irving and bleating about...

Israel Attacking Rights Groups

Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009

Human Rights Watch, the U.S.‘s leading human rights organization, is accusing Israel and supporters of a campaign of misinformation in an attempt to discredit the rights group. HRW has been a leading voice in condemning Israeli war crimes following the Goldstone report. The Guardian: America’s leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an “organised...

Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

Human Rights Watch denies having political agenda or seeking funds from Saudi Arabia America's leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an "organised campaign" of false allegations and misinformation, including "extremely personal attacks" on its staff, in an attempt to discredit the group over its reports of war crimes in Gaza. Human Rights Watch...

Hey Bill Kristol by digby ... and...

Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Hey Bill Kristol by digby ... and Jon Podhoretz. Are you proud of being affiliated with these people? Americablog reports: Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats' health care reform plan. Here are a few...

Tweetlinks, 11-09-09

A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people): Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean But Does Twittering Really Sell Books? Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor...

Teabaggers to Holocaust survivor: "Stop whining"

The Nookular Option (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

John Aravosis points out some truly heinous comments by tea-baggers, in response to Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's criticism of a tea bagger. Some highlights: "Rothschilds nothing! Everyone knows that Obama is George Soros sock puppet. Wasn't Soros Jewish once upon a time? May the Schwartz be with you." "The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are...

You Stay Classy, Tea Partiers

The New SteveSilver.net (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

You can tell this group is something way, way beyond typical Republicans or conservatives- it truly has a racist, Jew-baiting, Buchanite tinge to it. Elie Wiesel? What a left-wing hippie communist....

Just. Fucking. Speechless.

WTF Is It Now?? (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

When Buchenwald survivor Elie Wiesel criticized a teabagger’s sign showing dead bodies from Dachau as ‘indecent and disgusting,’ compassionate conservatards condemned said sign and apologized if it offended anyone. Just kidding: they attacked Mr Wiesel as an Obama-appeasing, freedom-hating communist woman, who should clam up and accept the fact that [s]he’s in a ‘Chritian’...

• Just. Fucking. Speechless. - Undeniable Liberalism

Wiesel on Tea Party Signage

The Political Game (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Elie Wiesel has had a rough few years. However, being attacked by a Holocaust denier in 2007 and losing $15.2 million in his foundation's assets to Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme in 2009, hardly compares to the horrific months Wiesel survived at Auschwitz, Buna - Werke , and Buchenwald. Prior to Friday, it had not occurred to me that Wiesel was being reminded of the unspeakable events of his past every...

Links of the Day - 11/9/2009

Heretical Ideas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

* Hungary and the end of the Cold War. * Making microfluidic chips that work out of Shrinky Dinks? Genius! * Toward a slow news movement. I’m all for that. * I am, occasionally, rendered speechless by ignorance. Like, for example, these comments about Elie Wiesel. * Some interesting scriptural interpretations of homosexuality. [...]

Classy As Always

Wet Casements (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

When your political ideology pushes you towards slurring Elie Wiesel, and your sheer ignorance makes you think he’s a woman, then you and your teabagging friends should probably take a break.

Sometimes I Despair For Humanity

Delaware Liberal (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel issued a statement condemning the use of Dauchau in a protest sign at the Thursday Bachmann tea party protest: Not much room for discussing who saw which sign in this statement from the Elie Wiesel Foundation: Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: “This kind [...]

The Adversary is Not Ideology or Demographic, It is at its Most Innocent, Fear, at its most Disappointing, Apathy, & at its Worst, Social Pathology

Words of Power (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Image: Heronymus Bosch, Hell, Courtesy of Radio Netherlands As Canadians mark Holocaust Education Week, it is a sobering thought to realize that the genocide in Darfur has lasted longer than the Holocaust itself. Mia Farrow, Cycles of Violence, Toronto Star, 11-4-09 Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease It exists in a sphere that cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument;...