When the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, Max Blumenthal tweeted that "Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them", referring to Israel, and "did more harm than good and should not be honored". He "repeatedly lauded Jewish settlers for ethnically cleansing Palestinians in East Jerusalem". Blumenthal criticized Wiesel for his support of Elad, an Israeli group which encourages Jewish settlement in the area. In a statement to "The Jerusalem Post", Jake Sullivan, then senior policy adviser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said: "Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel." He added: "She believes they are wrong in all senses of the term. She believes that Max Blumenthal and others should cease and desist in making them."