Clinton campaign lashes out at son of Sidney Blumenthal over Wiesel comments

Hillary Clinton’s campaign this week slammed comments by the son of longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal regarding the late Elie Wiesel.

{mosads}”Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy advisor, said in a statement to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

Max Blumenthal, an advocate for Palestinian rights, took to Twitter shortly after Wiesel’s death to criticize the author for turning a blind eye to Israeli human rights abuses.

Elie Wiesel is dead. He spent his last years inciting hatred, defending apartheid & palling around with fascists. pic.twitter.com/3bRTq4QDye

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 2, 2016

“(Clinton) believes they are wrong in all senses of the term. She believes that Max Blumenthal and others should cease and desist in making them,” Sullivan said of Blumenthal’s comments.

“Elie Wiesel was a hero to her as he was to so many, and she will keep doing everything she can to honor his memory and to carry his message forward.”