Sorry to be party pooper here, but that statement WAS made by Ellie Weasel. I just did a web search for it.
Now what's even more pathetic about the situation is that despite Wiesel's quote, another disgusting, left wing, self hating Jew named Arthur Hertzberg basically accused Weasel of being too hard on the fakestinians, and not critical enough of Israel! Read all about it in Hertzberg's Open Letter to Ellie Wiesel, which was published in the New York Review Of Books. This idiot Hertzberg had relatives who were killed by the Nazis, and he writes this drivel:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/4339I'm going to Google Hertzberg and share with you guys what I find.