Elie Wiesel
Quotations about Wiesel
Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian-Israeli, member of the Knesset, and intellectual. This is what he had to say about Elie Wiesel:
- ... and what a lovely setting for it too: against the backdrop of the rosy cliffs of Petra. Here were gathered a handful of Nobel Prize laureates who had performed not a single service for humanity. None of these had invented insulin or even aspirin, or produced great literature or made peace anywhere in the world – in fact, one of them had caused wars. It was a collection of self-obsessed narcissists, caring only about how to refine and polish their image. Prime among them was a mediocre novelist, a self-promoting racist by the name of Elie Weisel, who, regretfully, took the appalling tragedy of the death of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and reduced it to a kiosk for selling anti-Arab hatred.
Azmi Bishara, Channelling the resistance, 6 July 2006, Al Ahram Weekly.
