British Parliament hosts anti-Zionist Auschwitz survivor for Holocaust memorial day
Yesterday, I attended the Holocaust memorial event at Auschwitz in Poland. Little did I know that back in my home country anti-Israeli activists had co-opted two Labour MPs to host a Holocaust survivor in Parliament… to lambast the State of Israel and to accuse Zionists of abusing the Holocaust for political aims.
This gross perversion of the true meaning and significance of the day on which the civilised world was marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz was recounted first hand by Jonathan Hoffman, co-vice chair of the UK’s Zionist Federation and one of Britain’s leading pro-Israel activists. Hoffman attended the event and gives his account in the link below.
It transpires that the Holocaust survivor in question is an 85 year old man named Hajo Meyer who has been taken up by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) and paraded around Britain. On Tuesday night he spoke at Goldsmiths College in London.
He has also been shown off at events in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Liverpool where his fierce denunciations of Israel and Zionism have received standing ovations.
Wednesday’s event at a packed committee room at Westminster was organised by far-Left Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn and his party colleague Brian Iddon, secretary of the Britain-Palestine group, whose electoral constituency is in Bolton, a northern English city with a large Muslim population. Iddon hosted an event in the same room in Parliament last year to promote Ben White’s notorious book, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginners Guide.
To read Hoffman’s account of how he and other activists attended and protested against the meeting, click here:
http://www.thejc.com/blogpost/too-extreme-ucl-not-parliament
January 28th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Does the UK population at large realise that this giveses momentum to the quiet movement at the moment being “whispered” among American Christians to boycott econoic dealings with the UK?
January 28th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Probably the worst factor of this tour is that the odious Hajo Meyer
states that Israel treats the Palestinians worse than the Nazis treated treated the Jews and others in the Holocaust, a truly monstous allegation.
I believe we should seek to have him on the banned list from entering the UK on the basis of his incitement to hatred, and the likely breaches of peace his appearances are likely to cause.
Joy Wolfe
January 29th, 2010 at 3:21 am
Good grief the anti Israel bile is so strong in Britain that it is palpable.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Meyer should be on the banned list. This meeting violated the 1986 Public Order Act, section 18:
18.-(1) A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting
words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is
threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if-
(a) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is
likely to be stirred up thereby.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
A Survivor, “Ketzele”, has written a comment under my JC blog article that Robin links to:
January 29th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Well thankfully I don’t live in the UK which, current course and speed and on track to become yet another foul Eurosewer of hate, arson and welfare.
April 6th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Why is wrong to be anti-zionist? Also why is it that to be pro-palestinian one must therefore be anti-jew? Does that mean that pro-Israel people are therefore anti-arab/muslim? How come the people who sympathize with the Palestinians (whom Ben-Gurion himself admitted were the victims) do not use the anti-arab/muslim slur against their opponents? Could it be that simple things like facts, history and morality are enough to cement their arguement? it is evidently so.