Hajo Meyer

Hajo G. Meyer ( born August 12, 1924 in Bielefeld ) is a German - Dutch physicist and author.

Life

In 1938 he fled as a Jew without his parents from the Nazis in the Netherlands. From 1943, he tried to hide there, but was captured after a year and then jailed nine months in the concentration camp Auschwitz.

He studied theoretical physics in the Netherlands. Until his retirement he worked at Philips. He then dealt with the musical instruments.

In recent years, he became politically active. He headed the NGO Een Ander Joods Geluid which tries to support the Middle East peace effort by the Jewish community wants to stimulate discussion about the Israeli government opinion. He is a member of the " International Jewish Anti- Zionist Network" in support of Palestinian rights. Meyer also endorses Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.

For his book "The End of Judaism ," in which he described including the Holocaust as a "freak of history," speculated about a future intention of the Jews to rule the world and the Israeli policy several times with which compared the Nazis, Meyer was Henryk M. Broder sharply criticized. Broder accused him and his publisher Abraham Melzer, among other things, " the Adolf ( to ) make ", and described both as " capacity for Applied Judäophobie ". The Melzer Verlag then procured an injunction against such statements, which triggered a lot of attention from public debate. Following a complaint by Broders and a partial success before the Landgericht Frankfurt directed against the injunction, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt decided last instance, that both above-cited statements Broders " according to all that is in Meyers and was told at the reading in Leipzig " were admissible. Thus, it lifted the injunction in relation to the anti- Meyer statements in full on again. In particular, it was found that it could also provide a bottom- Jewish anti-Semitism.

Meyer is a member of the party Groen Links.

Publications

  • The End of Judaism, Neu-Isenburg, 2005, ISBN 3-937389 -58- X
  • The End of Judaism: Georg Meggle (ed.): Germany, Israel, Palestine. Pamphlets. European publishing house, Hamburg, 2007, pp. 191-304, Content, ISBN 978-3-434-50605-8.
  • Tragic fate, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86596-174-7
  • Judaism, Zionism, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86596-226-3
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