[New Haven Register] Randall Beach - Human rights activist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel Tuesday told a Yale audience that civilized people must speak out against intolerance, especially the anti-Israel attitude of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wiesel is astonished and outraged that the leader of any country could now try to deny the Holocaust occurred, that six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis. "I am waiting to hear the outcry," Wiesel said. "You cannot be silent when this man is threatening the existence of a nation....Civilized people, people with conscience, cannot accept this man." Wiesel said Iran should be expelled from the UN, a remark which drew applause from the audience.
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