HMD Trust refuses to publicise meeting with Auschwitz survivor

To:
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
18 January 2010

The UN’s Judge Goldstone added his voice recently to the condemnations of Israel’s massacres in Gaza and ongoing violations of human rights across the whole of Palestine. Those who remain silent concerning those crimes are sending a dangerous signal to Israel that it can indeed kill with impunity. We fear that Israel is planning fresh massacres.

The commemoration of the Nazi Holocaust can and should be an opportunity to reflect on all examples of state-directed mass murder and to intensify our commitment to end them. We deplore the decision the UK Government-sponsored Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website to commemorate mass killings selectively, and to exclude reference to the mass killings in Iraq, Afghanistan and, recently, Palestine.

It is truly shocking that the official HMD website is censoring all publicity for the 2010 Holocaust commemoration meetings where Hajo Meyer, a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, will speak of his experiences and call for solidarity with the besieged and violated people of Gaza.

We call upon the HMD website to immediately publicise these important events: otherwise the impression will spread that the memory of the Holocaust is being selectively used to further an agenda in support of British and Israeli militarism.

Signed