Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel plans to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress next month, Reuters reported yesterday.

An outspoken New Jersey Orthodox rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, said on Thursday he is placing full-page advertisements in two of the leading U.S. newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, featuring Wiesel’s endorsement of Netanyahu’s speech. …

The advertisement quotes Wiesel as saying he plans to attend Netanyahu’s address “on the catastrophic danger of a nuclear Iran.” Awarded the Nobel in 1986, Wiesel asks Obama and others in the ad: “Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?”

In the ad, which appears here, Weisel cites the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the salvation of the Persian Jews from the plot of Haman to destroy them and compares the threat from modern Persia, Iran, to the biblical one.

 Now Iran, modern Persia, has produced a new enemy. The Ayatollah Khamenei has been as clear as his predecessor in declaring his goal: “the annihilation and destruction” of Israel. He is bent on acquiring the weapons needed to make good on the deadly promise.

Later in the ad Wiesel requests all parties to “put politics aside” and asks:

President Obama, Vice President Biden, distinguished members of Congress, I ask you – As one who has seen the enemies of the Jewish people make good on threats to exterminate us, how can I remain silent?

[Photo: The White House / YouTube ]