In a moving story in the Forward, released by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), the late Elie Wiesel’s son, Elisha, published a moving statement of shame about US participation in the Olympics in China. “Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of ‘peace and friendship’ while simultaneously terrorizing its Uighur minority.  The Chinese government’s systematic oppression of the Uighurs, a Muslim group in northwest China, is not the Holocaust.  But although we may not have seen this particular movie, we know the genre… Just like in 1936, the International Olympic Committee is unwilling to push the issue. And our community is mostly silent.

“My father believed passionately that speaking up mattered especially to the victims… I fear that China’s state-sponsored capitalism has silenced us through our greed.”

Wiesel, Elisha (February 10, 2022). When I recall my father Elie Wiesel, my shame about these Olympics only deepens.  Forward. https://forward.com/opinion/482111/father-elie-wiesel-shame-beijing-olympics-nazi-uyghurs/