THE COURAGE OF A NAZI:

Author attacked in S.F. hotel (Adam Martin, 2/09/07, The Examiner)

In a bizarre attack, a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator by an apparent Holocaust denier who reportedly had been trailing him for weeks.

Police escorted Elie Wiesel to San Francisco International Airport on Feb. 1 after a man accosted Wiesel in the elevator at the Argent Hotel, at 50 Third St., after Wiesel participated in a panel discussion at a peace conference and before Wiesel was scheduled to catch a flight back to New York. [...]

In a posting Tuesday on the anti-Zionist Web site ZioPedia, a writer using the name Eric Hunt takes credit for the attack: "After ensuring no women would be traumatized by what I had to do (I had been trailing Wiesel for weeks), I stopped the elevator at the sixth floor. I pulled Wiesel out of the elevator. I said I wanted to interview him."

Credit? I met Mr. Wiesel at a campaign event in 1985 and even then the most remarkable thing about him was how fragile he seemed. I could never figure out subsequently whether it was merely a function of our size difference or whether he somehow used his spirit to demonstrate to those around him the delicacy of the human being. Bragging about accosting him -- when he's twenty years older and ca't be any more robust -- would seem to be about par for the course for these cretins.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 9, 2007 6:36 PM