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Renowned author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel condemned several signs containing Holocaust comparisons and anti-Semitic messages at yesterday's "House Call" protests. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner ...
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Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
americablog.com — 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 ... (more) Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Weisel blasts the tea party 'anti-Semitism': 'Indecent and disgusting'
politico.com — 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 of political hatred is indecent and disgusting" (more) Weisel blasts the tea party 'anti-Semitism': 'Indecent ...
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Elie Wiesel on Tea Partier Signs: 'Indecent and Disgusting'
Little Green Footballs — ... Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last Thursday. ...

Elie Wiesel Condemned Anti-Semitic Messages At Right Wing Protests
Liberal Values — ... that Republicans have any chance at being successful at picking up the Jewish vote. Here’s another example of why this will not happen: ...

Elie Weisel Condemns Use Of Holocaust Imagery By Health Care Protesters
Below The Beltway — The above photo is one of many that was spotted at the “House Call” rally hosted by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann last week on the eve of the health care reform vote in the House of Representatives. Elie Weisel is among those who wasn’t pleased: Renowned author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel condemned several signs containing Holocaust comparisons and anti-Semitic messages at yesterday’s “House Call” protests. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims ...

Right Wing Anti-Semitism Is Nothing New
DownWithTyranny! — ... summoned the teabagger Sturmabteilung to DC in the vain hope-- vain except in the case of Larry Kissell-- of intimidating members of Congress. They marched around and teapartied with horrific pictures from Dachau and equating saving Americans' lives with health care to... Nazism. Gee, I haven't heard Wolf Blitzer and the Villagers who castigated Grayson say a word about Bachmann's and Boehner's mini-bund meeting. But Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel did. He recognizes right-wing anti-Semitism when he sees it. One sign at the rally ...

GOP Nazi Rhetoric Continues and Backfires
NJDC Blog — ... to September’s G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, all of whom are shocked by the trend. But if that is not enough, author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel tweeted last week “on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: ‘This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting.’” ...

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