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One of the last remaining Auschwitz survivors has launched a blistering attack on Israel over its occupation of Palestine as he began a lecture tour of Scotland.
Dr Hajo Meyer, 86, who survived 10 months in the Nazi death camp, spoke out as his 10-day tour of the UK and Ireland – taking in three Scottish venues – got under way.
Dr Meyer also attended hearings at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, where five pro-Palestine campaigners are accused of racially aggravated conduct after disrupting a concert by the Jerusalem Quartet at the city’s Queen’s Hall.
Speaking as his tour got under way, Dr Meyer said there were parallels between the treatment of Jews by Germans in the Second World War and the current treatment of Palestinians by Israelis.
He said: “The Israelis tried to dehumanise the Palestinians, just like the Nazis tried to dehumanise me. Nobody should dehumanise any other and those who try to dehumanise another are not human.
“It may be that Israel is not the most cruel country in the world … but one thing I know for sure is that Israel is the world champion in pretending to be civilised and cultured.”
Dr Meyer was born in 1924 in Bielefeld, Germany. He was not allowed to attend school there after November 1938. He then fled to the Netherlands, alone. In 1944, after a year in the underground, he was caught by the Gestapo and survived 10 months at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
He now lives in the Netherlands, and is the author of three books on Judaism, the Holocaust and Zionism.
Dr Meyer also insisted the definition of “anti-Semitic” had now changed, saying: “Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.”
A spokesman for the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, of which Dr Meyer is a member, said criticising Israel was “not the same” as criticising Jews.
Mick Napier, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign chairman and one of the five demonstrators facing charges when the court case continues in March, said: “Palestinians are happy to have him as an ally in their cause.
“Hajo knows that Israel has a long history of abusing the tragic history of the Holocaust in order to suppress legitimate criticism of its own crimes.
“Especially since Gaza, people are no longer taken in by their claim that anyone that criticises Israel is anti-Semitic.”
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Aian Ramos said:
I still find myself in awe whenever I remember what happened in Auschwitz, in Rwanda, and in every place where inhumanity reigns..The sheer violence is unbelievable, one human being violating another. If only we can all learn to co-exist.
Aian Ramos said:
I would like to believe that the good always triumphs. That in spite of the ugliness of what happened then something or someone still manages to pull through.
♡ The Tale Of My Heart ♡ said:
Yes couldn’t agree more…..
♡ The Tale Of My Heart ♡ said:
Yes I remember that what happened in the day light and recently in Burma the peace loving buddhist killing Muslims and burned their houses, and world wa watching very closely…
Krystiana said:
Jak już napisałam mieszkam niedaleko Auschwitz ,to trzeba zobaczyc na własne oczy co Niemcy wybudowali na Polskiej ziemi,a ten mur w Izraelu tez widziałam……
♡ The Tale Of My Heart ♡ said:
One thing who supported the war in Germany as well as the funding the war it is a question???
Carl D'Agostino said:
Very powerful commentary indeed.
♡ The Tale Of My Heart ♡ said:
He was a survivor of the Auschwitz and I agreed with him 100%