Wiesel - A Liar and a Fraud

Anti-Semitic fliers have been posted at the University of Cincinnati and nearby Xavier University, targeting Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, who is speaking at Xavier on Sunday, May 6.

On April 4, about 30 fliers were posted at the University of Cincinnati on and around the Hillel Jewish Student Center, and a couple were found by the student union, said Judith Wertheim, 20, a resident of University Heights and a junior at the university. The fliers were posted a day after Hillel began advertising Wiesel’s speech, which is being presented by The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, an independent nonprofit in Cincinnati.

The fliers, which call Wiesel a liar and a fraud, among other scurrilous charges, were also spotted on the campus at Xavier University, a Jesuit institution that is co-sponsoring his appearance.

In response, the University of Cincinnati’s Undergraduate Student Senate passed a resolution supporting a letter drafted by Rabbi Elana Dellal, executive director of its Hillel, and submitted to the senate by Stephen Lamb, a student intern at Hillel. The letter criticized the fliers’ message, said Wertheim, a senator from the College of Allied Health Sciences.

“We, the student body of the University of Cincinnati, will not stand by as intolerance occurs on our campus,” Dellal wrote in the letter titled “We Will Not Be Silent.”

“We, students and supporters of the University of Cincinnati, understand that denying that the Holocaust happened is anti-Semitic,” the letter continued. “There is no place on our campus for intolerance of any kind, be it religion, race, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity.”

Jewish students active at Hillel, who plan to attend Wiesel’s speech, also decided that doing more than writing the letter and alerting the student government to the fliers was “giving too much power to this person posting them,” said Wertheim. “This wasn’t a threat of violence. But we don’t condone hate speech, which is why we brought it to the student government to get more backing.”

When informed of the fliers, university officials said they would “keep an eye out,” said Wertheim. “It was very clear the university is very supportive of Hillel.”

The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education is presenting Wiesel, a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor and author, with financial support from the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati. Wiesel’s first book “Night,” the 1956 memoir of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz, has sold millions of copies.

The author of the flier identifies himself as Robert Ransdell, coordinator of Cincinnati’s unit of the National Alliance, a white supremacist group that has dwindled in support in recent years and only has about a dozen active participants, said David Schneider, an Anti-Defamation League investigative researcher based in Chicago.

“Elie Wiesel, because of his prominence and his status, attracts the attention of Holocaust deniers and white supremacists,” said Schneider.

Wiesel has not spoken in Cincinnati in a decade, said Sarah Weiss, executive director of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education. Many schools in the area include “Night” in their reading lists, and there are already 4,000 reservations for the event, including 2,000 students, she said.

“While it is unfortunate that individuals who hate and want to deny history are present and visible and active, it’s a small minority of people,” said Weiss. “We should use this to energize and galvanize efforts around Holocaust education. Maybe, in a small way, it’s an opportunity for us.”

Publicizing hate-mongering activities requires walking a fine line, said Nina Sundell, area director of the Anti-Defamation League, whose region covers Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.

“The purpose of distributing the fliers is to bring more attention to a hateful activity,” she said. “There’s a downside to publicizing that as more people hear their message. However, one of the best ways to fight hateful rhetoric and speech is through other speech, the reverse type. It’s always a judgment call” whether or not to make these activities public.

Sundell has not decided if she should become involved in the Cincinnati incident. “Would it assist them in putting forth a positive message or spread the hateful message further?” she asked. “We feel it is the ADL’s role to bring these issues to light, but we need to examine this situation further to decide if we take any action.”

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local/article_fab43cf6-84ab-11e1-97cb-0019bb2963f4.html

National Alliance Cincinnati Coordinator Robert Ransdell Counters Elie Wiesel's Xavier University Appearance With The "$1,000 Tattoo Challenge"

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that on May 6th, 2012, Holocaust marketer Elie Wiesel appeared at Xavier University before an audience estimated at 6,000 people. As expected, Wiesel complained that the world has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, noting that every minute today, somewhere in this world a child dies of famine or of disease or of violence. He opined that we have allowed the weakest of us to be targeted, claiming that this was a regular occurrence in Nazi Germany.

Wiesel was 15 when he and his family were deported by the German NS regime to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. His mother and one of his sisters were killed. Wiesel published his book about the experience, titled “Night” in 1956. It since has been translated into about 30 languages. But in his book, Wiesel fails to explain why, if the Germans were so genocidal, they gave Wiesel a choice to be evacuated to Auschwitz or left for the Soviets, and why Wiesel chose to be evacuated with the Germans to Auschwitz. Carolyn Yeager also discloses that there are two different English translations of "Night"; one published in 1960, and the other published in 2006. She presents comparisons of the translations HERE and HERE.

But the rest of the Cincinnati story comes from a blog entitled Elie Wiesel Cons The World. Carolyn Yeager discloses that Wiesel was not unopposed. While no opposition surfaced during Wiesel's speech, the coordinator of the Cincinnati Unit of the National Alliance, Robert Ransdell, spread the message of opposition throughout the local community. Ransdell came up with “The $1000 Challenge”, which promised the money to the first person to get Elie Wiesel to show his left forearm and reveal his A-7713 tattoo number...or lack of it. If there is no tattoo visible, no reward would be given. The winner would have to show proof that Elie Wiesel does have a tattoo, which would require Wiesel’s cooperation. According to a follow-up comment appended to this post, the $1,000 was put up by Ransdell himself and represents his personal funds.

Ransdell - Honest and Courageous

The publicity campaign was launched on April 4th, when about 30 fliers were posted at the University of Cincinnati on and around the Hillel Jewish Student Center, and a couple were found by the student union. The fliers were posted a day after Hillel began advertising Wiesel’s speech, which was being presented by The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, an "independent" nonprofit in Cincinnati. The fliers called Wiesel a liar and a fraud. This led to the predictable shrieks of "anti-Semitism" and "Holocaust denial" and "hate" from the usual suspects.

Ransdell appended this follow-up comment to this post:

by Robert Ransdell On May 4, 2012 at 3:32 pm:
Hey there Bruce, believe me, seeing as I am confronting the Jewish supremist establishment with this campaign I thought through any and all scenarios in which the self chosen could use some sort of sneaky tactic to make it to where things would backfire on me.

I made it clear in the flyers and press releases I sent out to local media outlets that the tattoo must be the one he claims he received at Auschwitz; if he were to smear something on his arm that would not be the evidence I am asking for that would win the reward.

Any attention to the issue of the tattoo is what is the point of all of this, and it is what the Jewish establishment wants to avoid. That showed in the publishing of an article in a Jewish publication that is also on the site here — nowhere in the article where they whine about “hate flyers” do they mention anything about the main subject matter of those flyers, promoting the $1,000 challenge that has been issued and is in play.

While I have secured the reward money, my own money, in case the unlikely happens and he pulls up his sleeve to the first person to ask him for proof and it is actually there (highly unlikely as documented by this website he more than likely doesn’t have it to show), my honest opinion is that no one will have the courage to answer the call which means no one will be eligible to win the reward. Again I made it very clear what I was looking for as far as what the winner would have to do, no fake tattoo will do.

Highly unlikely that Wiesel would want to bring attention to his questionable claims.

Some might ask why this matters when black-on-white mob assaults, some done in the name of "Trayvon", are escalating in American cities. The reason: Holocaust Revisionism exposes Jewish supremacism and the threat it poses to free speech. Those who dispute the Official Authorized Version of the Holocaust are castigated as Holocaust deniers and are sanctioned both economically and legally. And these tactics have been replicated in the climate change debate; those who dispute anthropogenic climate change are being labeled "deniers" and threatened with sanctions. So although Holocaust Revisionism may not be as important as black-on-white crime, it remains a back-burner issue at the very least.

http://whitereference.blogspot.com/2012/05/national-alliance-cincinnati.html#more