February 9, 2007
Now Here's a Strange Story
Nobel Prize winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was assaulted in a San Francisco hotel on February 1st by a Holocaust denier. Wiesel was in town-- irony alert-- for a Peace Conference. He was staying at the Argent Hotel and was apparently being stalked. When the man got into the same elevator with Wiesel, he asked to talk to him and when Wiesel told him he'd do it in the lobby instead of the elevator, the man dragged him out of the elevator and tried to drag him into a room. When Wiesel started screaming for help, the man ran off, freeing the author. Soon after, the cops came and escorted Wiesel to the airport where he promptly got the hell out of town.
The man who accosted Wiesel took credit for it on an anti-Zionist web site using the name Eric Hunt. In the posting, he said that he decided to go after Wiesel only after "ensuring no women would be traumatized by what I had to do," which was nice of him. In the posting, Hunt said that he was going to make Wiesel "truthfully" respond to charges that his Holocaust memoir "Night" was made up and that the Holocaust was "a myth."
Police haven't apprehended anyone yet, but they think Hunt just might be a suspect.
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Im sure the SFPD will have someone in custody shortly.
Sad and bizarre story. This Eric Hunt guy is deranged, do a Google search for "Eric Hunt" and "Elie Wiesel" and you can read his rambling post about the whole attack. I hope SFPD nabs the guy.
Its too bad the guy's name isn't Mike Hunt.
This is nauseating. It's so disturbing each time we're reminded that there is a contingency of such hateful people out there. Not that this stops the hate and I know I'm being just as awful, but I hope there is only lox bagels and matzo balls served in this guy's special place in hell.
mike hunt your my hero, i meant eric
Not a bit surprised to see this go down in SF. It's the most anti-Jewish part of the entire US, and it's not the same city it used to be.
Bakers Dozen + Gav Ballz Deep + Elie attacked = bad news year for SF!
moose: in defense of my city, there is no indication in the Examiner or Chronicle stories that Eric Hunt lives in San Francisco. As for San Francisco being anti-Jewish, that's pure hogwash.
But I agree that SF isn't what it used to be and that could be a good or bad thing, depending on your point of view.