Beautiful words by tattooed Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer (RIP):
“I saw in Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanise others, so as the Nazis wanted to dehumanise me, then this dominant group must first be dehumanised in a way themselves by diminishing their empathy through propaganda and indoctrination - in order to be able to be as cruel as some were. The same holds nowadays for Israel. I am appalled about how hateful, how dehumanised that they do not see any human aspect in any Palestinian anymore, it’s terrible. The Zionists have not any right whatsoever to use the Holocaust for any purpose. They have given up everything which has to do with humanity, with empathy - for one thing: the state, the blood and the soil, just like the Nazis. I learned at school about blood and soil, and that’s exactly their idea too - and humans do not play a role. Judaism as I learned it is highly, highly ethical, and so you can not connect Zionism with highly ethical. You can only connect the words ‘aggressive,’ ‘oppressive,’ ‘stealing’ and ‘robing’ with Zionism, but not highly ethical. Zionism and Judaism are contrary to each other because Judaism is universal and humane, and Zionism is exactly the opposite: it is very narrow, very nationalistic, racist, colonialist, all this. There is no national Judaism, there is Zionism, and there is Judaism.”Post vertalen
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