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obel Laureate Elie Wiesel,
Boston University pro-
fessor, author of more
than 30 books and a hu-
man rights spokesman, was in-
terviewed recently on the
occasion of the release of his lat-
est book, All Rivers Run To the
Sea.
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A: Mr. Wiesel: The only way is
to educate the public not to ac-
cept these speeches. You cannot
stop hate speeches because they
will continue hating and they
will continue speaking, if not in
public then in private. The only
way is to create an atmosphere,
an ambience that would reject
hate and then they would, in a
way, be shamed into silence.
Q: How would you educate
against hate?
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and go up to university. We
should have imaginative pro-
grams. Why not create a day or
a week, once a year, where [stu-
dents] study nothing else in
schools but fanaticism? This
should be the focus. I have
pressed for this (education)
everywhere I have been for the
last many years. I organized
conferences on the anatomy of
hate. I want to understand what
is the texture of hate, what is
the origin, what is the genesis,
what is the price? What is the
mask of hate?
Q: Do you believe there is a
growing awareness of the
dangers of hatred or is the
world regressing into more
intolerance?
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Q: In all the areas of the
world where you have been
involved as a human rights
spokesman, which area have
you been most encouraged
by in terms of progress?
Q: There is a battle in Cana-
da right now over how to
protect freedom of speech
from freedom of hate speech.
How would you approach
this issue?
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write all my books long hand! I
am from another century.
There is a growing intolerance.
Fanaticism is growing in every
field. There is a religious fa-
naticism, an ethnic fanaticism,
political fanaticism going to the
extreme right or the extreme
left. However, the awareness
among people that something
must be done to stop that is also
growing.
Q: How do you address the
issue of racism on the Inter-
net?
A: I don't know anything about
that because I don't know any-
thing about computers. I still
Elie Wiese!
A: I was involved in the dilem-
ma of Soviet Jewry back in
1965. It was a topic that no one
wanted to hear about. But that
changed! Also, South Africa is a
miracle. [Nelson] Mandela came
out to one of our conferences a
few months after he got out from
jail. We also invited the minis-
ter of the apartheid government
at that time, Leon Wessels. And
at one point Wessels, who had
never met Mandela turned to
him and said, 'Nelson, I grew up
in apartheid. Now my fervent
wish is to attend its funeral.'
That was so beautiful, so poet-
ic. That is encouraging.
Q: What area are you most
discouraged by?
A: Where there is hatred. It is
dangerous; it has power; it is
mortal. And in too many states,
too many countries, hate has
power. There are too many fa-
natics. Look at Iran. Saddam
Hussein is still in Iraq, Assad in
Syria, Qaddaffi [in Lybia]. And
then there are the dangers in
Russia with the next election.
In those areas we have not
made any progress.
Q: How do you retain hope in
the face of reversals and dis-
appointments?
A: I will reverse the question.