Stanford Report, May 24, 2006

Wiesel appeals for action on Darfur

James Chan/Stanford Daily Elie Wiesel

“Whenever humanity fails anywhere in the world, ours is at stake,” said Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel last Sunday evening, speaking before a capacity crowd in Memorial Auditorium. The winner of a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Wiesel offered an urgent appeal to action against the “total inhumanity” of the genocide in Darfur and hatred and fanaticism of all kinds. Indifference to the suffering of others negates culture, civilization, goodness, kindness and hope, Wiesel said. “If you stand by when somebody else is being tortured, you are an accomplice.” Wiesel’s visit to Stanford was sponsored by Hillel at Stanford, the ASSU Speakers Bureau, the Jewish Students Association and the Stanford chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).