than those who hold office or traditional positions of power. His life, and the power of his example, urges us to be better,” Obama said Saturday night.

For more than a half-century, Wiesel voiced his passionate beliefs to world leaders, celebrities and general audiences in the name of victims of violence and oppression. He wrote more than 40 books, but his most influential by far was “Night,” a classic ranked with Anne Frank’s diary as standard reading about the Holocaust.

But for some pro-Palestinian activists, his support for Israel outweighed the rest of his legacy.

“Elie Wiesel will be remembered by Palestinians for his racism and his propaganda services to their oppressors, ethnic cleansers and killers,” Ali Abuminah, co-founder of the well-known Palestinian blog Electronic Intifada, wrote.

Elie Wiesel will be rememberedby Palestinians for his racism and his propaganda services to their oppressors, ethnic cleansers and killers. — Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 3, 2016

Abbas Hamideh, co-founder of Al-Awda, an organization that works toward allowing Palestinian refugees from the 1948 Israeli Independence War to move back to their former lands, called Wiesel a “fraud.”

“Elie Wiesel was a fraud who lied about his experiences & supported ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people in the process. Nothing honorable,” he wrote.

Elie Wiesel was a fraud who lied about his experiences & supported ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people in the process. Nothing honorable. — Abbas Hamideh (@Resistance48) July 3, 2016

Some international media personalities also took to Twitter to criticize undiluted world praise for the recently deceased human rights activist.

Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American author and scholar