06 - Dr. Hajo Meyer
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Dr. Hajo Meyer is a Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist activist. He has been conducting a speaking tour titled "Never Again For Anyone," sharing his experiences of surviving Auschwitz and his perceptions of Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
This video is a selection of clips from an interview with Dr. Meyer on February 19, 2011 and discusses his views of the antagonistic relationship between Zionism and Judaism.
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my name is haigha Meyer I was born in
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August 1924 in Bielefeld
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western Germany and so I'm 86 year old
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and I've had to leave Germany in January
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1939 because from November 1938 on I was
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not allowed to go to school anymore
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they went in in in in the Netherlands I
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first made my entrance examination still
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under the term it to the University
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still under German occupation it
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occurred in April 43 then I went
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underground and then in in around that
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year later I was caught and and brought
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to Auschwitz in survival to ten months
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out streets in my view I I was educated
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in in the tradition of enlightened
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reformed Judaism without any relation to
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the prescript of halakhah but just to
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the social cultural heritage and the
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enlightened enlightened parts of Judaism
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this ethical tradition is absolutely
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contrary to everything which is at the
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basis of Zionism because Zionism was
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created by mr. Hetzel and others who
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were at the end of the 19th century and
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then in that era it was commonplace to
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be colonialist to be racist to be to be
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super nationalist to adore the
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nation-state
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so the idea of France for the French
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Germany for the dramatics and and and
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then some some state for the for the
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Jews they were very bad ideas and they
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all form the basis for Zion very often
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they cannot get the education they want
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and and and that is terrible if you are
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not allowed to get an education you do
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your utter best
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to go against the forces which made you
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stop education and so you search for
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education and I learned to get an
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education by myself for years and
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eventually had a very high education and
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was very successful professionally but
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it may gave gave me also the the idea
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that preventing people young people who
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are eager to learn from getting
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education is a form of genocide because
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if you cannot realize your own ambitions
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because you the access to education is
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made impossible then you cannot develop
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your personality and and that is a form
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of slow-motion genocide and and that's
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where my great sympathy in my connection
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to the Palestinian youth comes from
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because I suffered I think they suffer
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from exactly that that they very very of
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more often than not cannot get the
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education they want and I think that is
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absolutely murderous besides that many I
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mean look I was i I was a refugee and
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there are most of them come from refugee
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homes and are refugees so we have very
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much in common yes I saw in Auschwitz
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that is a dominant group wants to
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dehumanize others so as the Nazis wanted
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to dehumanize me these dominant group
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must must first be dehumanized in in a
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way themselves by diminishing the
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empathy due to to propaganda and an
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indoctrination in order to be able to be
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as cruel as somewhere ok but the same
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holds holds nowadays for Israel and and
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this fact has been documented by by at
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least I know - very impressive documents
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one by Fulham it's a lonely who is
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appalled about who was once Minister of
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Education Israel
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how hateful racist how depreciating the
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schoolbooks in Israel talk about about
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the Palestinians and an a new repellent
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come on who is a pedagogue in the
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University of Tel Aviv has made a big
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study of the schoolbooks and she's
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appalled about the racism which is
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taught to to children in Israel and then
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you get nowadays the the the rabbis in
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especially the army rabbis get ever more
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aggressive they're are so aggressive
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they are so racist it's it's not and
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look it's so it I am appalled about how
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hateful how dehumanized they that they
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do not think see any human aspect in any
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Palestinian anymore it's terrible the
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Zionists have not any right whatsoever
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to use the Holocaust for any purpose I
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mean like like Netanyahu did the other
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day in the General Assembly of the
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United Nations
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he used the number of my arm or the
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number of our arms to to defend and
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coming attack on Iran it's nothing to do
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with the treasure look they have they
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have given up everything which has to do
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with humanity with with empathy for one
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thing the state the blood and soil just
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like the Nazis I was then you can I mean
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I learned that school about blood and
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soil and that's exactly their their idea
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to and and humans humans do not play a
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role Judaism as I learned it it is
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highly highly ethical and and so you
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cannot connect
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Dianna's with Heidi
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ethical you can only connect the words
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aggressive oppressive stealing robbing
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with lasagnas but not highly ethical
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that is and Judaism a contrary to each
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other because Judaism is universal and
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humane in Zionism is exactly the
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opposite it is very narrow very
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nationalistic racist colorless to do all
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this they there is no there is no
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national Judaism there is an ism in the
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as Buddhism and they are completely
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different
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you
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take-take-take these were so many things