Never Again: For Anyone. IJAN speaking tour with Dr. Hajo Meyer and Dr. Haidar Eid

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.

Tour Schedule

January 21-30, 2010

● 21 Jan, 7.30pm: University of Glasgow, Sir Charles Wilson  Building.

● 22 Jan, 7.30pm: University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building.

● 23 Jan, 2pm: Augustine Church Centre, Edinburgh.

● 24 Jan, 7.30pm Sheffield: Conference Office, The Showroom & Workstation, Paternoster Row.

● 25 Jan, 7.30pm: Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool.   

● 26 Jan: 6pm: Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London.

● 27 Jan, 7pm: House of Commons (Portcullis House) Westminster, London.

● 29 Jan, 7.30pm: The Grosvenor Hall, Glengall Street, Belfast.

● 30 Jan, 6pm: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin.

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.