#WhyIStandWithAhed ? Nazi genocide survivor Jacques Bude told me "the duty of memory is to say never more dehumanization. If we say ‘never again,’ we have to decide where we stand and condemn it. #MessageToAhed
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Nazi genocide survivor « felt in exile » in Israel
Adri Nieuwhof 19 October 2017
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Jacques Bude survived the Nazi genocide because he was saved by Belgians as a child. His parents were deported and murdered in Auschwitz.
A retired professor, Bude supports the call for a boycott of Israeli universities complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
He lectured in social psychology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, but prefers to identify as a “deserter from the Israeli army.”
As a 16-year-old, Bude was taken in 1949 to Israel from an orphanage for Jewish children in the Belgian port of Antwerp.
Two years later, after evading military conscription, he fled Israel. Today, he expresses admiration for young Israelis who refuse to join the army.
When Bude spoke to The Electronic Intifada at his home in Brussels, it was the first time he had told a journalist about his experiences.