Epstein Secrets

rowing in the pre-Brown versus Board of Education era of legally mandated segregation, the goal of all decent people is the same: color blindness. As Martin Luther King was to put it so eloquently several years later: “T have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be j

at this point in our proceedings. Congressman Hyde then angrily began to lecture me about the rule of law: Does the rule of law -- have you been to Auschwitz? Do you see what happens when the tule of law doesn't prevail? ZIT HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017364 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Now, I don't leap from the Oval Offic

or where you have one law for the powerful and one for the nonaristocratic. He did not give me an opportunity to respond to his absurd invocation of Auschwitz. But I did insist on responding when Congressman Barr contrasted me with the “real America” and how “the real America views these matters.” The follo

s anything but imperfect) was becoming the newest excuse for legitimizing the oldest of bigotries. The line from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism—a line Martin Luther King warned about in a speech at Harvard shortly before his death—was being crossed. For the first time in my adult life, I was seeing an increase in the

uspected that he might welcome an invitation from Harvard and the platform such as an event would accord him. I replied, “No, the debate should be at Auschwitz; that’s where the evidence is.” He said he would communicate my offer to the president, who, he told me, was on the way to a press conference on the

en of the 21* Century. When I think of how close he came to not surviving, and when I think of how many other Elie Wiesels were lost in the flames of Auschwitz, I begin to understand the full horrors of the Holocaust. 400 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017487

I worried about the implications of a judicial decision authorizing censorship. It could be used to justify the censorship of a march by the likes of Martin Luther King through a segregated community in the south; whose residents would be deeply offended by an integrated group marching through their community. It’s n

cholar named George Wellers analyzed this diary entry and the surrounding documentation for Le Monde. He did actual historical research, checking the Auschwitz record for October 18, 1942. His research disclosed that 1,710 Dutch Jews arrived that day. Of these, 1,594 were sent immediately to the gas chambers