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Thursday January 01 1970

Public Meeting with Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer, 6pm The Central Hotel, Dublin 2

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Tuesday December 29, 2009 22:12

by Freda H - IPSC

Public Meeting “Never Again – To Anybody” - Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer speaks in favour of Boycotting Israel.
The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2 @ 6pm

Holocaust survivor, author and activist Hajo Meyer will speak will be speaking about why he feels a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel is both necessary and justified.

This will the final event in the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s ‘Gaza: A Month of Remembrance” program, and is taking place during Holocaust Memorial Week.

About Dr. Meyer:

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 in Auschwitz death camp. He lives in the Netherlands, where he works as publicist and essayist. A member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (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, the holocaust and Zionism.

An interview with Dr. Meyer can be read here: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10568.shtml

For more info contact [email protected]

Comments (2 of 2)

Zionism is racism

by Anto

Thu Jan 28, 2010 16:36

This looks good. Any truth to the rumour that Meyer was heckled at a London meeting? What sort of misguide muppet would do that? They must be scared of his message.

See ya

Auschwitz survivor booed and heckled by Zionists

by David Landy

Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:53

Hi Anto, it's no rumour unfortunately. It's absolutely true. The following report was sent by a friend of mine in J-BIG (Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods). We don't envisage the same type of people to turn up in Dublin, but it is chilling. As my friend said, these are the sort of people who say, 'Hitler killed the wrong Jews'.

See you tomorrow. It should be an interesting meeting

D

"This was IJAN's Holocaust Memorial Day meeting at Portcullis House - their second London meeting as part of their 'Never again for anyone' tour. Once again, when Holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer started to speak, Hoffman [vice-chair of the Zionist Federation] interrupted with 'Rubbish'. Tonight the Zionists were out in force - Richard Millet was sitting next to him and there was a bunch of them the other side of the room. A bit later, Hoffman stood up and led his merry men with the chant 'Racists out, racists out!' Can you imagine? This was a meeting to commemorate the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day, and Hoffman turned it into a football match!! This shows how much they really care about the Holocaust, for all their ranting on about it.

It's pretty clear that Jewish anti-Zionist Holocaust survivors are a big threat as they ruin their arguments. Apparently, he called the survivor a racist and an anti-Semite.

The police kept going in and out and had words with Hoffman, eventually taking him out, although by then, he had shut up. Whoever had asked him to be taken out, probably didn't realise that there were worse disrupters at the back, heckling all the way through and causing chaos. One horrible young man who knew who I was, laughed and yawned loudly all the way through saying 'Boring', even when the survivor was talking about the Holocaust and not Zionism. He was eventually taken out by the police - I think 4 were taken out in total. And yet they would have been allowed to ask questions, so what was the point, other than to make the meeting break down and censor the Holocaust survivor?

Tonight, the Palestinian Dr. Haidar Eid spoke live from Gaza via video link. He spoke about the destruction and despair in Gaza, flesh being burned with phosphorus, and that horrible Zionist carried on yawning.....Then, a few of them shouted 'Shame on you' at Haidar Eid.

What? Shame on a Palestinian for describing the horrors that they were experiencing?

Thanks to all the disruption, there was no time for questions at the end. Had there been time, this is what I would have said: 'I'd like to thank the Zionist hecklers for proving the main points of the meeting - that they do not care about the Holocaust unless it serves their Zionist agenda, while their callous indifference to the plight of the Gazans, illustrates that 'Never again' only applies to them.' Indeed, on arguing with some Zionists outside, some of them admitted that they thought that 'never again' should only apply to Jews."