Clinton campaign slams 'hateful' Max Blumenthal comments on the late Elie Wiesel

[King_David]

"Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel.”
The Clinton campaign criticized recent comments made by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal regarding the late Elie Wiesel.

“Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

Sullivan released the statement following a Post report 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, but 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.”











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[King_David]

1. Blumenthal is a hateful bigot,, let's hope this is the end of their "advisers " careers.

Bravo Hillary .....

[ericson00]

5. exactly. Max Blumenthal is not only a self-hater, but he is a liar and smear artist too

who peddles fake documentaries.

He SHOULD be thrown far under the bus; doing so is not only the right thing to morally do, but takes away from a potential Trump retort regarding Jewish voters, his star of David incident, etc. Even tho Max was never close with Hillary (and probably thinks she's evil), the association with one of Hillary's advisors, Sid, warrants action.

[floriduck]

2. Any relation to Sidney?

[Metric System]

3. Son.

[Little Tich]

4. I can't see why Max Blumenthal could have waited with his criticism.

Inappropriate.

[shira]

8. But is Max Blumenthal correct in your opinion? n/t

[Little Tich]

9. I'm well aware of Elie Wiesel's work and who he was.

I have no reason whatsoever to spit on his grave, and I think it's wrong when other people do so. Perhaps later, it could be possible to critically discuss Elie Wiesel's work, but it's a bit too early just yet.

[leftynyc]

6. Good for Hillary

Max is a repulsive asshole and any good Democrat will do themselves a favor by ignoring his disgusting existence.

[geek tragedy]

7. Blumenthal made it pretty easy for Clinton to Sistah Souljah him nt