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We are calling for a week of coordinated actions across the world that confront Zionism and support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) call from Palestine. We are therefore mobilizing practicing and secular Jews across the globe to honor the second intifada and the high holidays by taking action to divest economically, politically, emotionally and spiritually from Zionism and from Israel.

UPDATE: Due to a growing interest in participation in launch in regions across the globe, we are extending the Week of Action to a Month of Action (October 1 - October 31). 

Click here to find out more, to add your ideas for what these actions might look like and to bring additional ideas.

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The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and IJAN will go on a three-city tour of Oregon this weekend.  Speaking engagements will be held in Eugene, Portland and Corvallis.  The tour is sponsored by the Al-Nakba Awareness Project.

Click here to read an article by the IJAN speaker published in the Register Guard Newspaper, the second largest newspaper in Oregon. 

 

One year after Gaza. What happened? What's next?
What can we do now?

Monadel Herzallah from the U.S. Palestine Community Network and founder/president of the Arab American Union Members Council

Rebecca Tumposky, U.S. Coordinator for the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

The presentation will demonstrate how Palestinian and Jewish activists can appropriately work together for human rights without giving an appearance of normalcy or parity of suffering.

Eugene, Thursday, Feb. 25, 7-9 P.M.

The Knight Browsing Room in the University of Oregon's Knight Library,  1501 Kincaid Eugene, OR 97403-1299.

Portland, Friday, Feb. 26, 7-9 P.M.

Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 298
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway
Portland OR 97201

Corvallis, Saturday Feb 27 7-9 P.M.

Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship,
 2945 NW Circle Blvd., Corvallis OR 97330

Free, donations gratefully accepted.

Sponsored by
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Advocating Freedom, Justice & Equality in the Holy Land

Co-sponsors to date:
Arab Student Union, UO
Al-Awda Oregon
Peace Action Council Corvallis Unitarian
Corvallis Veterans For Peace
Friends of Middle East Peace Group, Corvallis/Albany
June Kenagy
Bob Stebbins
Milton Takei
Peter Chabarek
Dave Evans

An exciting public event took place in San Francisco on January 28, 2010 as part of the “Never Again for Anyone” tour initiative which launched the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network’s Remembrance Campaign. A good turnout of people came to see the video presentations of the tour’s speakers in Europe - Haidar Eid and Hayo Meyer and a moving speak out followed. Everyone in the room offered thoughtful and wide ranging contributions to the topics presented: a Palestinian man described growing up in Palestine and how he and his sister had been shot a number of times by Israeli soldiers. Other participants, the majority Jewish people, spoke about their experiences challenging Zionism and how the pretext of antisemitism is used to silence, about historic events, the misuse of the holocaust, connecting the violence of the holocaust with other mass violence against people and what can we now do.

 Meeting organizers used a power point of Hayo Meyer’s and publicity from the tour in Europe to give key points in his presentation, as due to technical difficulties, we were not able to get the film in time to show it. A viewing of the presentation is being rescheduled for people to see and to continue with the groundbreaking Remembrance Campaign to break with the exceptionalism of and false way the holocaust is presented and to connect with people around the world who have also faced and continue to face genocide.

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An 86-year-old Holocaust survivor was heckled by pro-Israelis while giving a controversial talk on Wednesday night at Goldsmiths University in Lewisham.

Dr. Hajo Meyer delivered his talk, ‘The Misuse of the Holocaust for Political Purposes’, on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day .His criticisms of the Israeli government were met with aggression by two audience members, who shouted interruptions during talks by both Dr. Meyer and fellow speaker, Palestinian Journalist, Haidar Eid. They also held up signs with the word ‘lies’ written on them.

In 1944 Dr. Meyer spent 10 months in Auschwitz; the largest of the World War II concentration camps. He is now a published essayist based in the Netherlands, and is involved in campaigning for ending, what he views as, the occupation of Palestine. He is delivering a series of talks as part of a tour organised by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.

The Network’s Founder, Sarah Kershnar, claimed they had not been  allowed to list any of the talks on the official Holocaust Memorial Trust website due to their position on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Ms.Kershnar said: “We tried three times and it wouldn’t go through.”

She has launched a petition in response to the banning, but when EastLondonLines approached The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, they denied having received the submission from IJAN.

James Haywood, the Goldsmiths College student who organized the hosting of the talk for IJAN, said he believed it contributed an important perspective to the Memorial Day; “The talk we’re holding tonight is not conventional but its important to remember that racism in all its forms is bad.”

Other East London line boroughs, Croydon and Hackney, hosted more traditional ‘Candle Lighting Events’ yesterday to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

Die Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (EJJP-Österreich)

Frauen in Schwarz (Wien)

und die

Gesellschaft für Österreichisch-Arabische Beziehungen

  

laden ein

zum Vortrag von

Dr. Hajo G. MEYER

  

„Zionismus - Entstehung, Aufstieg und Niedergang"

  

Einführung:  Sara KERSHNAR (IJAN)

  

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem

Internationalen Jüdischen Anti-Zionistischen Netzwerk (IJAN)

  

Zeit:   Mittwoch, den 17. Februar 2010, um 19 Uhr 30

  

Ort:  Festsaal der Bezirksvorstehung Alsergrund

1090 Wien, Währinger Strasse 43 

                       

Biographie:

Dr. Hajo G. Meyer, geb. 1924 in Bielefeld, flüchtete 1939 nach Holland und lebte illegal als Widerstandskämpfer ein Jahr im Untergrund.  1944 wurde er nach Auschwitz deportiert.  Er überlebte dort zehn Monate.  Nach dem Krieg studierte er Theoretische Physik und arbeitete nach seiner Promotion in der Forschungsabteilung bei Philips, die er später auch leitete.  1984 wurde Hajo G. Meyer pensioniert und war fortan als Geigenbauer tätig. Er lebt in den Niederlanden und ist Vorstandsmitglied der holländischen Organisation „A Different Jewish Voice" (Mitglied der „European Jews for Just Peace") und auch Mitglied des „International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network".

Seit 2002 sind von ihm folgende Publikationen erschienen:  „Das Ende des Judentums" (2007), „Tragisches Schicksal.  Das deutsche Judentum und die Wirkung historischer Kräfte. - Eine Übung in angewandter Geschichts-philosophie (2008)", „Judentum, Zionismus, Antisemitismus und Antizionismus:  Versuch einer Begriffsbestimmung" (2009), sowie zahlreiche Essays und Artikel

 

Klicken Sie hier für eine Europa-Tour planen

 

Paris

8 February, 19h30, au CICP

21ter, rue Voltaire 75011

(métro Rue des Boulets)

 

Lyon

9 février à 20h

Maison des Passages

44 rue St Georges, 69005

(métro Vieux Lyon)

 

Strasbourg

10 février à 20h

Maison des associations

1a Place des Orphelins

 

Vienna

Mittwoch, den 17. Februar, um 19 Uhr 30

 Festsaal der Bezirksvorstehung Alsegrund

1090 Wien, Währinger Strasse 43

 

Geneva

February 18, 20h

 

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 Lundi 8 février, 19h30, auCICP

21ter,rue Voltaire 75011 Paris

(métroRue des Boulets)

 

Mouvementdes Indigènes de la République (MIR)

RéseauInternational Juif Antisioniste (IJAN)

Traite esclavagiste, génocide des Juifs et desTsiganes, massacres parles puissances coloniales ... La barbarie initiée aucours du XVI^èmesiècle par les civilisations européennes colonialistes n'a rien à envier auxviolences de toute l'histoire humaine. Or,les massacres de masses ne sont paségalement dénoncés, suivant que leur mémoireest relayée ou non par un État, etdifféremment s'il s'agit d'un État puissant,ou ami.

Pour comprendre cette « hiérarchisation »,nouspréférons utiliser le terme « massacres de masse », car il estplusdescriptif que « génocide » ou « crimes contrel'humanité ».Nous souhaitons comparer les faits et leur mémoire, endistinguant les interprétations.

Car il nous faut nous affranchirdel'instrumentalisation du passé par les dominants, et définir une compréhension commune. La hiérarchisation des identités - que ce soit sur des bases raciale, religieuseou ethnique - est le résultat d'une construction intéressée.

Remettre en cause ce traitement inégalpermetd'envisager une résistance solidaire face à toutes les oppressions, de dénoncerl'impunité,les massacres en cours, voire de contribuer à prévenir ceux quipourraientadvenir.

Cliquez ici pour un calendrier de la tournée européenne.

 

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IJAN and the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign just completed a ten-day, nine-city "Never Again for Anyone" tour in England, Scotland and Ireland with Hajo Meyer, an 85-year old survivor of Auschwitz, and with Haidar Eid, from Gaza via video and telephone. The tour reached over 1200 people with most events attended by 100-150 people. Eid and Meyer received a standing ovation at each.

 

 

Click here to watch additional videos of the presentations and to read speaker bios.  

On January 27^th, Holocaust Memorial Day, the event was held at the House of Commons in London with two Members of Parliament chairing. In addition to Eid and Meyer, there was testimony given by representatives from nine different communities impacted by genocide and ethnic cleansing-from the Roma and Armenian communities to the Sri Lankan resistance movement to those organizing for disability rights and for reparations for the African slave trade in the UK.

The tour now continues on to continental Europe with events planned for Paris, Lyon, Strausberg, Vienna, Geneva and possibly Berlin.

Click here for a European tour schedule.

Visit the Never Again For Anyone tour online for analysis of and commentary.  

“In Contempt: Zionism and McCarthyism in Canada” by Naomi Binder Wall, speaks to some of the comparisons being drawn between Zionism and McCarthyism, as an escalating backlash in Canada continues to attack critics of the Israeli state. These attacks have taken a sinister turn, marked by escalating government interference including ominous changes to Canadian foreign policy language, Islamophobic homeland security operations, and cancellation of federal funding to prominent Arab and other organizations providing programs, settlement services, and project support in Palestine.

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Don't miss the Midwest premiere of  "I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You" at Bedlam Theatre this February.

The show will be running for 2 weeks and is co-presented by IJAN-Twin Cities, Mizna and Bedlam Theatre.

 

February 18-28, 2010

Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm

Sunday at 4pm followed by Artist Talkback 

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El 18 de enero de 2010 se cumple el primer aniversario del fin del bombardeo de Israel sobre Gaza; ataque que duró desde el 27 de diciembre de 2008 hasta el 18 de enero de 2009 y que terminó con la vida de 1.412 palestinos. El documental “To Shoot An Elephant” (TSAE) narra, desde el interior de la Franja de Gaza, lo ocurrido durante aquellos días. Convertido en narración directa y privilegiada de los bombardeos quiere ser herramienta para hacer frente a la propaganda israelí y al silencio internacional.

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I was 20 years old when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet army 55 years ago. This occurred just in time because 10 months imprisonment in Auschwitz-Gleiwitz-1 had weakened me considerably. One needed a hell of a lot of luck in order to survive that long under the circumstances in that camp.

Two important components of luck were on my side. First, during my first years as a refugee kid in the Netherlands I had learned to be a locksmith. So during the very strong winter of '44-'45 I worked in the warmth of a factory. Second, I had acquired a very good and completely trustworthy friend, called Jos. We helped each other as much as possible. The two of us did indeed survive.

Another aspect of my friendship with Jos was that in spite of -- or better, due to -- the extremely high number of people per square foot in such a camp, one felt extremely lonely. Because of our friendship, mutual help and absolute mutual trust we were not lonely. This was vital to our psychological survival.

Psychological survival is at least as important as physical survival. In fact, the Nazi concentration camps were their attempt to dehumanize us Jews. If a prisoner became part of the oppression system by being Kapo, the dehumanization would be successful. Obviously, the non-Jewish members of the oppression system were also no longer fully human. I realized there that anybody from a dominating group who tries to dehumanize people from a minority group, can only do so if by education, indoctrination and propaganda he has already been dehumanized himself, independent of the uniform he wears.

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In his blog, Jonathan Hoffman, co-vice-chair of the Zionist Federation in the U.K., described survivor of the Nazi genocide Hajo Meyer thus:

This week – deliberately timed to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday – a small group of such Jewish hypercritics is teaming up with the usual suspects to parade their performing trophy Israel-hating Holocaust survivor, Hajo Meyer, the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland. He started in Scotland and the first newspaper report has come out, including a quote from me.

Like some grotesque, ungainly performing bear in the circus, Meyer is dancing willingly to his ringmaster's tune, saying that Israel’s actions are the same as those of the Nazis, that Israel causes antisemitism and that “an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.” (The Jc.com)

According to Hoffman, Meyer, author of three books about the subject, cannot possibly have formed his own opinions in light of his own personal experience, including his time in Auschwitz. He must be manipulated by his "ringmasters." We are unforunately not shocked by Hoffman's disrespect of a holocaust survivor's right to his own experience. This is what we'd come to expect from the apparatchiks of Zionism. 

 

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On January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, leading politicians from the U.S. and Europe will join in honoring the memory ofJews 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 andgenocide everywhere, every day.

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