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SAN FRANCISCO - BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE-Feb 21,2007
As the San Francisco district attorney's office prepares its case
against Eric Hunt, the man suspected of attacking Nobel Peace Prize laureate

and author Elie Wiesel in San Francisco on
Feb. 1, new information surfaced today that Hunt may have been member
of an established neo-Nazi group. Hunt, 22, was arrested Feb. 17 by authorities in New
Jersey and is in the process of being extradited to San Francisco for prosecution.
After his arrest, San Francisco police Lt. Mike Mahoney, who heads

the department's special investigations unit, said Hunt had recently graduated from college, and appears to be a "lone wolf'' and not part of an organized group.
Today, Jeff Klein of the militant Jewish Defense Organization in New
York said his group uncovered Hunt's blog where he claims to be a member of the American National Socialist Workers' Party, a neo-Nazi organization. In addition, the leader of ANSWP issued a statement applauding Hunt's actions. "Police claim Eric Hunt is not a member of a hate group. Now we have the proof," Klein said. Hunt writes in his blog that he is "a soldier of ANSWP," and says, "I have the authority of our leader to confront Jew Lairs and fake Aryans ..." Hunt goes on to say that he will visit the heads of several organizations dedicated to combating racism and "see that they tell the truth, even if I have to beat it out of them." Bill White, who leads ANSWP, issued a statement on his organization's
Web site that said, "Insofar as my views may have played a role in motivating Mr. Hunt, I
can only say that I hope I inspire a hundred more young white people to sacrifice themselves for our collective racial whole." White also said that Wiesel "should be afraid to walk out his front door."
Klein called on the government to shut down the Web sites that make
death threats against Wiesel, pointing sites that list Wiesel's home address. "It's against
the law to make a death threat on the Internet. We want them taken down," he said.
Wiesel, 78, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War
II and author of the acclaimed memoir "Night,'' received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Hunt allegedly traveled to San Francisco from New Jersey specifically to confront Wiesel while Wiesel was attending the three-day Rock Rose Institute World Forum Meeting at the Argent Hotel, according to the district attorney's office. According to police, a man believed to be Hunt joined Wiesel in an elevator at the hotel on the evening of Feb. 1 and asked him for an interview. Wiesel agreed and suggested they go to the hotel lobby, but the man instead invited Wiesel to his hotel room, police said.
When Wiesel declined, the man allegedly tried to force Wiesel into his room. Wiesel screamed for help and the man ran off, police said.

New Jersey Herald -Feb 24,2007
IS THE ATTACKER HUNT DENYING THE
HOLOCAUST
By TOM HOWELL JR.
Staff Writer -NEWTON — Seven years ago, Emory University Professor
Deborah Lipstadt had to go to court to prove the Holocaust happened. British writer David
Irving had sued her for libel after one of Lipstadt's books called him an anti-Semite who attempted to debunk the Holocaust throughout his career. He filed the suit in London, because defendants bear the burden of proof there, but a judge ruled unequivocally in Lipstadt's favor after a high-profile trial involving expert defense witnesses.
The recent arrest of Vernon resident Eric Hunt, 22, accused of attacking renowned Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel, and the cyberspace war of words on
surrounding the case, highlight the persistent issue of Holocaust denial, or "revisionism"
as its proponents call it. Vernon High School advisers were stunned by Hunt's arrest, wondering how the quiet, courteous student who graduated in 2002 could have dragged a Nobel laureate from an elevator at the Argent Hotel in San Francisco on Feb. 1, as has been alleged. "It's a terrible thing when anybody gets attacked, but it's a terrible thing when a man of such distinction gets attacked for who he is,"Lipstadt said.
In 2000, Lipstadt's court victory "pulled the floor out" from the argument that the Holocaust was fiction, Lipstadt said by phone from her Atlanta office on Thursday, shortly before she taught a seminar on the history of Auschwitz. "I think it was very bad for the
deniers, but it's not a death knell for them," she said. "Hate doesn't go away." Watchdog groups last week said one man's actions against Wiesel showed that hate speech, while protected, can delve beyond words and translate into violence. An attack specifically on Wiesel also sent a troubling message, groups said.
"Mr. Wiesel is not just a (Holocaust) survivor, but to many he is the
symbol or almost iconic figure of the survivors," said Etzion Neuer, regional director of the
Anti-Defamation League's chapter in West Orange. "In a sense, an assault on Mr. Wiesel is perceived by many to be an assault on the memory of the Holocaust." There is "a whole world" of Nazi organizations and sympathizers, said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which monitors hate groups. "I don't think there's any question that Holocaust denial has spread far and wide," he said. The denial has gained more momentum in Arab-Muslim countries than in
the United States, Lipstadt says, and is "the ultimate form of anti-Semitism, very often
an expression of racism of the right-wing." Potok, Lipstadt and Neuer all point to Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "International Conference to Renew the Global Vision of the Holocaust," on Dec.11 and 12, as the latest rallying point for Holocaust deniers,
despite the conference's neutral claims.

"This is not a legitimate historical debate," Neuer said. "We don't find people debating whether the Earth is round or if there was slavery in America, but for some reason we have a debate over whether the Holocaust happened." Sixty years after the defeat of the
Third Reich, the question remains: Why do Nazi ideals and Holocaust denial still appeal to
some, even after schools ,historians and a Smithsonian museum have poured so much effort into Holocaust research and awareness? "I think for many people who feel very powerless in their own personal lives, the idea of Nazism is very appealing," Potok said. "It's an image of power and undiluted strength." The Internet plays "a very serious role" in spreading Nazi ideas, Neuer said. It's an unprecedented vehicle for spreading a message, and extremist Web sites can be dressed up to look
pseudo-academic, he said. Without the Internet, Potok said, "Ninety-nine percent of people
would have absolutely no way of hearing about (Holocaust denial) otherwise." An article by
someone identified as "Eric Hunt" was posted on an Australian anti-Zionist Web site earlier this month, recounting the attack in detail and claiming Wiesel's famous Holocaust memoir "Night" is fictional. Bill White, the commander of the American National
Socialist Workers' Party based in Roanoke, Va., says an "Eric Hunt" e-mailed the article to his Web site first. "We broke the case on our Web site," White said by phone on Friday. "(The Australian site) took it from us." White, who says the Holocaust was primarily a Soviet conspiracy to drum up support for the war against Germany, said he had no other contact with this "Eric Hunt" and does not know any more about the author's identity. Whether the article outlining the attack on Wiesel was really written
by the Eric Hunt from Vernon remains to be seen, but publicizing one's efforts to label the
Holocaust as myth is "classic in the world of white supremacy," Potok
said. "These guys don'tseem to be capable of avoiding bragging about their feat to their
girlfriend and the guy sitting next to them at the bar," he said.
A militant group called the Jewish Defense Organization has launched a campaign to
protect Jewish persons in the aftermath of the Wiesel incident, spokesman Jeff Klein said.
"A Holocaust survivor was attacked by a neo-Nazi pig, and the Jewish
community is stillsitting on its hands," Klein complained.
The JDO calls for trained and certified armed security for Jewish speakers or synagogues,
and for boycotts against Internet Service Providers that allow neo-Nazi Web sites to
operate. Klein said the attack on Wiesel was a warning sign to the
Jewish community."People want to deny there's a threat until it conks you in the
head," he said. Lipstadt suggested that Jewish people who need security should call police. Lipstadt said knowledge is the best tool to combat Holocaust denial in America. "The thing I know best is to educate and learn and study,"she said. "Learn about prejudice and hatred." As for Hunt, he is lodged in the Somerset County Jail awaiting extradition to San Francisco, where he is wanted for assault, kidnapping .

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Man accused of more threats

Feds say Virginian also sought violence against Elie Wiesel

By Jeff Coen | Tribune reporter

October 23, 2008

Tribune reporter

A white supremacist charged with soliciting the injury of a Chicago juror has expressed on his Web site a desire that violence be committed against a famous Holocaust survivor and others, federal authorities said Wednesday.

William White of Virginia was indicted Tuesday in Chicago on charges he sought to harm the foreman of the jury that convicted white supremacist Matthew Hale in 2004 of plotting to kill U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow. The judge had ruled against Hale in a trademark-infringement suit.

White listed the foreman's address, phone numbers and the name of a pet cat under the heading, "The Juror Who Convicted Matt Hale," according to the indictment.

White, the self-appointed leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party, is expected to appear at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. He remains in custody in Virginia. His lawyer could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

About the same time as the message about the Hale juror appeared, a posting on White's Web site named a Canadian civil rights lawyer and said he "should be drug out into the street and shot."

After Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel was attacked in California in early 2007, White's site listed three purported Wiesel addresses and said Wiesel "should be afraid to walk out his front door," authorities said.

Officials say White wrote that he hoped his own positions would inspire "a hundred more young white people" like the one who attacked Wiesel.