On Monday, on the very same Cooper Union stage where Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of genocide in September, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel railed against anti-Semitism in front of a rapt audience.
Mr. Wiesel—the author of 57 books, including Night, which is based on his experiences surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps—was joined on a panel, “Genocide and the Jews: A Never-Ending Problem,” with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and Harvard professor Noah Feldman. More…
Originally published in New York Observer, November 2014