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          For Zion's sake I will not keep silent
            For Jerusalem's sake I will not be still 

                                                                                         Isaiah 62:1

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          The Isaiah 62 Declaration


          As Jews, many of whom lost family members in the Holocaust, we owe it to the memory of those who were murdered to ensure that the terrible events of the 1940s are never repeated.


          We regard it as our moral and religious duty to warn that the suppression of civil liberties, and the exclusion from society of groups regarded as unhealthy or unclean, or otherwise undesirable, bear very strong parallels to the events of the 1930s that eventually paved the way for the Holocaust to happen.


          It must be recognised that the Nazi regime initially excluded Jews from German society by claiming that such measures were necessary on grounds of a ‘public-health emergency,’ in order to prevent the spread of infectious disease. Anti-Covid policies which excluded the unvaccinated from society, and denied many more their basic right to make a living, to travel, even to hospital treatment and to food, were asserted on the very same grounds.


          We are further committed to upholding the principles of the Nuremberg Code, drawn up in 1947 following the Nuremberg Trials of German doctors who had conducted inhumane experiments on the inmates of concentration camps. The Nuremberg Code established the principle of informed consent for all medical experiments, and thus quite clearly outlaws the compulsory wearing of medical devices such as face masks, and intrusive tests that constitute a bodily assault, as well as coerced vaccination in the form of vaccine passports and mandates. These are all experiments. None of them had been demonstrated as ‘safe and effective’ before they were imposed on the public on the grounds of an ‘emergency’. Furthermore, in 2005 the United Nations (UNESCO) Declaration on Bio-Ethics and Human Rights extended the principle of informed consent to all medical treatments, not just experimental ones.


          Despite the apparent restoration of some rights, governments are still seeking to downgrade human rights by asserting the concept of ‘communitarianism,’ which sets an arbitrary assessment of the ‘common good’ of society above the hitherto inalienable rights of individuals. Yet either the individual is sovereign, or the individual must be subordinate to the community - both situations cannot exist simultaneously.


          Communitarianism does not materially differ from the principles of National Socialism in Germany, which subjugated the rights of citizens to the collective will of the state. For example, the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which excluded Jews from citizenship, introduced a ‘citizenship certificate,’ requiring the compliance of all citizens to the diktats of the Nazi regime. Governments which today seek to impose the principles of communitarianism on their citizens must be viewed in the same moral light.


          A precedent has now been set. The public has been conditioned through a campaign of fear. Covid policies or similar measures can be reintroduced at any time on almost any grounds the government deems sufficient. We assert that this cannot be permitted: that it is just such a campaign of fear – combined with the silencing of dissent – that creates the conditions in which totalitarian regimes are likely to take hold.


          Those of us who do attempt to speak out against censorship and discrimination, and who dare to compare recent events to the history of Germany in the 1930s, are often accused of ‘Holocaust denial’, yet this is a direct inversion of the truth. Those of us who warn of the potential consequences of discrimination and subordination do so precisely to honour the memory of those who were murdered in Holocaust; those who seek to silence us are the true Holocaust deniers, as they seek to deny us the right to learn from history – from our history.

           

          The principal phrase of officially sanctioned Holocaust remembrance is ‘Never Again’. To quote Vera Sharav, human-rights campaigner and child survivor of the Holocaust, ‘Never Again is Now.’ Now is the time to show that we have learnt the lessons of history, and to ensure that the creation and subjugation of ‘undesireable’ classes does not take place, lest we repeat the horrors which followed the demonisation of Jews in Nazi Germany.


          Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. If we cannot warn of the lessons of the Holocaust, and of the events that preceded it, then every single victim of the Holocaust will have died in vain.


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          Signatories


          The Signatories

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          Donna Rachel Edmunds

          Author


          Rabbi Chananya Weissman

          Human rights activist and author


          Binyamin Chai ben Shlomo Chai

          Physicist


          Chana-Yael

          Nurse


          Meir Schrover

          Pro-life and civil rights activist


          Sarah Kwakernaak

          Nurse


          Pinchas Head

          Chef


          Steve Forkin

          Christian Apologist and Philosopher


          Michelle Stirling

          Writer / Researcher


          Leah Weintraub
          Publicist


          Margaret Anna Alice

          Writer & Blogger


          Shemuel ben Avraham

          Rabbi


          Shlomo Shat

          Physicist


          Terri Fresko

          Psychotherapist


          Yael Horwitz


          Judi Rabi


          Miriam Feigenbaum


          Liesbeth Rubinstein


          Robert Greenfield


          Jonathan Lavy


          Jacqueline Lavy


          David Gimbel


          Hadassah Pond


          Maria Grazia Belli


          Dalia Sorotzkin


          Ruth Israel


          Morris Tarragano


          Robert Eric Kenyon


          Rami Shaft


          Gloria Britstone



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          Karen Harradine
          Journalist

          Vera Sharav
          Holocaust survivor and human rights activist

          Salomea Genin

          Holocaust survivor and human rights activist


          Ezra Gilbert

          Engineer


          Chana Schrover


          Jonathan Sigal


          Judah Ayling

          Copywriter


          Joel Mertens

          Social Economist


          Dr Jayne LM Donegan
          Retired NHS GP, Naturopath & Homeopath


          Caroline Kaye

          Ph.D.


          Daniel Miller

          Writer


          Robert Apter
          M.D.


          Robert Hoeschele

          MBA (& Crimean Karaite)


          Yael Kaner

          Mother & Grandmother


          Leorah Parker

          Artist


          Rachel Dobbs
          Mother

          Gabi Schwarz


          Janet Underwood


          Chana Ruth Abrams


          Rachel Sanger


          Bryan Singer


          Malcolm Smordin


          Alana Korsunsky


          Daniel Bernstein


          Sarabeth Matilsky


          David Driver


          Ginger Michels


          Krausz Tirzah


          Devorah Rosenblum


          Marleen Greenberg


          Eileen Delman



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          Andrew Barr

          Historian and author


          Asa Kasher

          Prof emeritus of professional ethics and philosophy, TAU, laureate of Israel Prize


          Mordechai Sones

          Journalist


          Michal Goldenberg

          Special educator


          Akiva Juroviesky


          Devorah Baron


          Michelle Shine
          Homeopath and author


          Amanda Falkson

          Psychotherapist


          Rev. Romulus C. Kulik

          Theologian, Theoretical Philosopher, and Author


          Lydia Trauttenberg

          Activist


          Gary Golden

          Ph.D.


          Rowena Slope

          Senior Lecturer


          Karen Dub

          Natural Health Practitioner


          Suzanne Pomeranz

          Licenced Isareli Tour Guide


          Leah Rivkah Sand Soetendorp


          Yehudah Netzer


          Julie P Spatzier


          Alan Young


          Iana Jacobson


          Lisa Billett


          Sara Springer


          Stephen Kirk


          Robert Muller


          Lionel Raber


          Aimee Cohen


          Ary Choueke


          Phillip Moss


          Olia Zvenyatsky


          Dena Gottlieb


          Mascha Orel


          Dalinda Reese M.D.



          Anonymous signatories:

          30 Jewish signatories

          732 Non-Jewish allies


          Total: 862



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