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.