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Isaac Isaacs (not verified) says:
I think we all have examples in life where a minority person has behaved badly, even reinforcing a stereotype, and where we have yielded to a temptation to condemn that entire group. In the case of Wiesel, however, I can't help recalling Norman Finkelstein's unflattering expose of him and his mission (for example in "The Holocaust Industry"). So forgive me if I don't join you in excusing him, who is about as representative of my race as that Roma was of his.
I think we all have examples in life where a minority person has behaved badly, even reinforcing a stereotype, and where we have yielded to a temptation to condemn that entire group. In the case of Wiesel, however, I can't help recalling Norman Finkelstein's unflattering expose of him and his mission (for example in "The Holocaust Industry"). So forgive me if I don't join you in excusing him, who is about as representative of my race as that Roma was of his.