Hajo Meyer and Haidar Eid: Never Again - For Anyone
Chris | 25.01.2010 00:35 | Anti-racism | History | Palestine | Sheffield
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Hajo Meyer and Haidar Eid: Never Again - For Anyone
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On January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, leading politicians from the U.S. and Europe will join in honoring the memory of Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. Yet the immensity of that tragedy is dishonored by the hypocrisy of the ceremonies: those who pay homage to the victims of yesterday's silence are silent about today's inhumanity. We say, "Never again!" For anyone. Never again for the people of Gaza. Never again for all those struggling against dehumanization, racism and genocide everywhere, every day.
Dr. Hajo G. Meyer was born in 1924 in Bielefeld, Germany. Not allowed to attend school there after November 1938, he fled to the Netherlands, alone. In I944, after a year in the underground, he was caught and subsequently survived 10 months at Auschwitz. He lives in the Netherlands, where he works as publicist and essayist. A member of IJAN, Hajo Meyer is on the board of the Dutch group "A Different Jewish Voice", part of the coalition of European Jews for Just Peace. He is the author of three books, on Judaism, Holocaust and Zionism.
"My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanise any other, must first be dehumanised himself. The oppressors are no longer really human whatever uniform they wear."
Dr. Haidar Eid is a refugee whose parents were expelled from the Zarnouqa village in 1948. Dr. Eid is a member of the PACBI Steering Committee and a co-founder of the One Democratic State Group. He currently lives in Gaza, where he is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Al-Aqsa University.
"Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.' The UN, EU, Arab League and the international community by and large remained silent in the face of the atrocities committed by Apartheid Israel. They are therefore on the side of Israel."
http://www.ijsn.net/436/ Further meetings:
25/1: Liverpool 7.30pm: Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool
26/1: London 6pm: Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
27/1: London 7pm: House of Commons (Portcullis House) Westminster
29/1: Belfast 7.30pm: The Grosvenor Hall, Glengall Street
30/1: Dublin 6pm: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street
Chris
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Solidarity
28.01.2010 17:42
Hajo Meyer makes some excellent points:
"It is true that both Judaism and Zionism have roots in the old testament but these roots are completely different and antagonistic.
"Zionism is Xenophobic, Nationalistic, Colonialist and Racist.
"I am angry that people say "The Palestinian Problem". The problem is the occupation and the behaviour of the criminal State of Israel.
"May I as a living survivor of Auschwitz say this. Any commemoration of Auschwitz and it's crimes is completely empty if you do not use it to look at the injustice to anybody done +now+ and mainly to the Palestinians."
I just watched some documentaries on the Holocaust: Memory of the Camps & Nuit et Broulliard. The parallels between Nazism and Zionism, in practice, stand out to anyone who has educated themselves about Gaza and the West Bank.
"They were in another world on the other side of the watch towers"
"Corruption was encouraged to provide another excuse for killing"
"This burn was caused by Phosphorous"
I disagree with Hajo's criticism of Anti-Capitalism:
The Bolsheviks thought "we will live in a bliss state when we have destroyed Capitalism".
The Nazis thought "we will live in a bliss state when we have destroyed the Jews".
The Israelis think "we will live in a bliss state when we have destroyed the Palestinians".
These scatological ideologies end up in mass murder."
A comment from the floor pointed out: "I don't agree that to dream of a better world leads automatically to Genocide".
I think that the Russian Communist Party's mass killings were a consequence of their continuation of Capitalism under state control. Mass killings are not just human nature but are a feature unique to unequal societies; their purpose is to maintain inequality.
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07.05.2010 19:38
Chris