In The End of Judaism, Auschwitz survivor Hajo G. Meyer, a Dutch
national of German-Jewish origin, expresses in impassioned terms
his dismay at what he sees as the moral collapse of contemporary
Israeli society and the worldwide Jewish community as a whole.
Meyer is a member of "A Different Jewish Voice," a Dutch-based,
secular Jewish movement that dares to openly criticize Israel's
policies toward the Palestinians. In his observations, deeply
colored by his personal experiences during the Holocaust, Meyer
compares Israel's current policies with the early stages of the
Nazis' persecution of the German Jews. He clearly explains that he
is in no way seeking to draw a parallel between the current
policies of Israel and the Nazis' endgame, which resulted in the
mass murder of six million innocent people. What he is trying to do
is simply point out the slippery slope that eventually led to this
catastrophe, and the necessity of foreseeing the possible
consequences of a policy that oppresses and marginalizes the
Palestinians in their own homeland. As a result of his experiences
in Auschwitz, Hajo Meyer claims to have learned one fundamental
lesson: that his moral duty as a human being was to never become
like his oppressors. The End of Judaism is the outcry of a
dissident Jew who is not afraid of standing up to entrenched ways
of thinking about history, and particularly about the Palestinian
conflict which is one of the most intractable social and political
problems in the world today.
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