We would like to take this opportunity to extend a hand to Rev. We would love to accompany him on a trip to the region to review the reality on the ground for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Barber has on many occasions condemned every form of racism, including anti-Semitism. He counts many prominent Jews among his friends and allies, and he regularly speaks in Jewish venues. He emphasizes that the roots of his advocacy are grounded in the words of the prophets of Israel. We have invited him to speak about the human rights legacy of MLK Jr. He is enthusiastically welcomed by prominent members of the BU community, and it is as such that we are both the inviting agency and very happy to host his lecture.
His work is focused on anti-Israel propaganda broadcast by Christian churches and para-church institutions and the failure of Christian peace activists to address human rights abuses in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East. He has played a major role in exposing the errors in the Palestinian Christian narrative. Skip to content. William Barber II. Photo: Knightopia — Wikipedia. On Oct.
On July 6, , Abdel Hadi Ghanem, a Palestinian terrorist, forced a crowded bus into a ravine, killing 16 people. On May 24, , a year-old girl was murdered by a Hamas terrorist as she waited for a bus in Bat Yam.
So why was Elie Wiesel chosen for the most prestigious award in the Western world, the Nobel Prize for Peace, in when it still carried a dignified aura? It has since lost some of that glow because so many of its recipients, including Wiesel, have lost theirs!
Elie Wiesel gives a speech after the Nobel awarding ceremonies on December 11, It took me half an hour to get out of it. If it [winning the prize] happens after Yom Kippur here, then some of my friends and myself have prayed well. Actually, they did a little more than pray. Sigmund Strochlitz in photo below left , who owns a Ford dealership in New London, Connecticut, has directed the offensive.
It might sound difficult to lobby for the Nobel Peace Prize. According to the rules of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, several categories of persons are eligible to make nominations. Parliamentary representatives, judges, academic, and former Nobel laureates are among those entitled to send letters of nomination to the committee in Oslo. Strochlitz asked Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for example, to nominate Wiesel, and to request similar letters from ten of his colleagues.
Strochlitz provided Moynihan with the names. Of course, many of the legislators Moynihan asked had no idea they could nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. And a few hardly knew who Elie Wiesel was. The letters they sent are perhaps less flowery than some the Nobel Committee has received in the past:. It is my honor to propose Mr. Elie Wiesel for the Nobel Prize for Peace. As you well know, Mr Wiesel has dedicated most of his life toward the goal of peace throughout the world.
In my opinion, you could not go wrong by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to this most deserving gentleman. More than 70 members of the West German Bundestag have also nominated Wiesel. After getting a few dozen senators under his belt, Strochlitz began grouping them in interesting ways. One year he got the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation to nominate Wiesel. Another year he solicited letters from all the members of the Senate Banking Committee. Strochlitz was helped by John Silber right , the president of Boston University, where Wiesel teaches.
In he wrote of the connections between Wiesel and Orwell. Silber said Wiesel never inquired about the effort to get him the prize, though he was aware of it.
Godfrey Robert J. Hildreth Eric S. Lander Alan M. Leventhal J. Kenneth Menges, Jr. Christine A. Poon Adam. On September 27, I received a polite reply, which did not indicate whether Dr. Thank you for your e-mail message of September 23, in which you express concerns about the accuracy of Dr.
I have no doubt that he is a survivor of the Holocaust and he has, thoughout his adult life, been a most eloquent witness to its atrocities. He is a man of integrity and would not stoop to fabrication. Having done that, and after sending them a further reply suggesting that they look into the matter, and with no further response, we now turn to the students at BU.
We have sent a message to student organizations, student publications and the local Boston media in a major effort to inform, encourage and assist students on campus to ask for answers to these questions. We believe there are individuals and organizations at BU who truly care about the ethical integrity of their university and its faculty, and who want to know the facts about all things, no matter how sensitive—not just accept what they are being taught by a timid, establishment faculty.
We suggest there is a simple request that Boston University students can make of Prof. Wiesel that their administrators are apparently unwilling to make. They can ask him to show his tattoo. He says he is a humble representative of the survivors of the concentration camps. Many Auschwitz survivors prove their presence in that camp by pointing to the number tattooed on their left forearm.
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