Dear Pastor Hagee with Elie Wiesel and far-right Israeli Minister Uzi Landau

"Dear Pastor" Hagee with Elie Wiesel and far-right Israeli Minister Uzi Landau

During the J Street conference, I criticized Elie Wiesel for delivering a speech to the congregation of the homophobic, Holocaust revisionist Pastor John Hagee, whose conspiratorial prophecies were so extreme John McCain withdrew the preacher’s endorsement. Now, just over three months later, we know why Wiesel hailed Hagee as his “dear pastor.”

For delivering one speech to Hagee’s congregation, Wiesel received a check for $500,000 toward his foundation, according to Marita Styrsky, the wife of Christians United for Israel Eastern Regional Director Victor Styrsky (Christians United is Hagee’s lobbying arm). So Wiesel got his money and Hagee got a photo with a Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust survivor. Everybody went home happy.

Since praising Hagee, Wiesel has gone on to condemn the Goldstone Report as “a crime against the Jewish people.” Wiesel’s remarkable statement prompted Richard Silverstein to ask, “What was the last event in world history you can recall being a “crime against the Jewish people?” The answer is pretty obvious.

 

6 Responses to “CUFI: Elie Wiesel Took $500K From Hagee For One Speech”

  1. mok says:

    $500k will buy you anything these days. Apparently, even a man’s soul.

  2. stevelaudig says:

    The price for his services has been established. Whoring is not limited to one gender nor one particular service. Here it is a form of vouching. Eli vouches for Hagee as he whores for himself. It’s a twofer and purely consensual.

  3. redjade says:

    Max,

    Is there any other source for this news other than this strange blog?
    http://viewfromthehood.blogspot.com/2009/10/feast-of-tabernacles-san-antonio-tx.html

    It is quite a stunning revelation – But I’d like a better source.

  4. hophmi says:

    Yeah, except you forgot to point out that he lost his life savings in the Bernie Madoff scandal.

  5. weezie says:

    Hophmi and that is an excuse to whore yourself to an antisemite? Really?

    Bernie Madoff capitalized on people’s greed and stupidity. Sounds like Eli did not learn his lesson about being greedy and stupid even after he lost it all.

  6. marktrail says:

    See the truth about the scum bag Max Blumenthal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5TOJt6YmQg

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