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Phrase associated with the Holocaust and other genocides

"Never again" is a phrase or slogan which is associated with the Holocaust and other genocides. The phrase may originate from a 1927 poem by Yitzhak Lamdan which stated "Never again shall Masada fall!" In the context of genocide, the slogan was used by liberated prisoners at Buchenwald concentration military camp to express anti-fascist sentiment. The exact meaning of the phrase is debated, including whether it should be used every bit a particularistic control to avert a 2d Holocaust of Jews or whether it is a universalist injunction to preclude all forms of genocide. It was adopted as a slogan by Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League.

The phrase is widely used past politicians and writers and it likewise appears on many Holocaust memorials. Information technology has also been appropriated as a political slogan for other causes, from celebration of the 1976 Argentine coup, the promotion of gun command or abortion rights, and equally an injunction to fight confronting terrorism after the September 11 attacks.

Origins [edit]

During the liberation of Buchenwald, a sign states "Form the Antinazifront! Remember the Millions of victims Murdered past the Nazis / Death TO THE NAZI CRIMINALS"^[i]

The slogan "Never again shall Masada autumn!" is derived from a 1927 ballsy poem, Masada, by Yitzhak Lamdan.^{[2] [3]} The poem is about the siege of Masada, in which a group of Jewish rebels (the Sicarii) held out confronting Roman armies and, according to legend, committed mass suicide rather than be captured. In Zionism, the story of Masada became a national myth and was lauded as an example of Jewish heroism. Considered ane of the most significant examples of early Yishuv literature, Masada achieved massive popularity among Zionists in the land of Israel and in the Jewish diaspora. Masada became a part of the official Hebrew curriculum and the slogan became an unofficial national motto.^[4] In postwar State of israel, the beliefs of Jews during the Holocaust was unfavorably assorted with the beliefs of the defenders of Masada:^{[2] [3]} the former were denigrated for having gone "similar sheep to the slaughter" while the latter were praised for their heroic and resolute fight.^[5]

Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies murdered about six million Jews in a genocide which became known as the Holocaust.^[six] The Nazi attempt to implement their final solution to the Jewish question took place during Globe War Ii in Europe. The starting time use of the phrase "never over again" in the context of the Holocaust was in April 1945 when newly liberated survivors at Buchenwald concentration camp displayed it in various languages on handmade signs.^{[7] [8]} Cultural studies scholars Diana I. Popescu and Tanja Schult write that there was initially a distinction betwixt political prisoners, who invoked "never over again" as role of their fight confronting fascism, and Jewish survivors, whose imperative was to "never forget" their murdered relatives and destroyed communities. They write that the distinction has been blurred in the subsequent decades as the Holocaust was universalised.^[8] According to the United Nations, the Universal Annunciation of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 because "the international community vowed never over again to permit" the atrocities of World State of war Ii, and the Genocide Convention was adopted the same twelvemonth.^{[9] [x]} Eric Sundquist notes that "the founding of Israel was predicated on the injunction to remember a history of destruction—the destruction of two Temples, exile and pogroms, and the Holocaust—and to ensure that such events will never happen once more".^[2] The slogan "never once again" was used on Israeli kibbutzim by the end of the 1940s, and was used in the Swedish documentary Mein Kampf [de] in 1961.^[xi]

Definition [edit]

Never Again! A Program for Survival (1972)

According to Hans Kellner, "Unpacking the semantic contents of 'Never Again' would be an enormous task. Suffice it to say that this phrase, despite its non-imperative form every bit a voice communication act, orders someone to resolve that something shall not happen for a second time. The someone, in the first instance, is a Jew; the something is unremarkably called the Holocaust."^[12] Kellner suggests that it is related to the "biblical imperative of retention" (zakhor), in Deuteronomy 5:15, "And recall that thou wast a servant in the land of Arab republic of egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm." (In the bible, this refers to remembering and keeping Shabbat).^[12] It is also closely related to the biblical control in Exodus 23:9: "Y'all shall not oppress a stranger, for y'all know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt."^[13]

The initial meaning of the phrase, used by Abba Kovner and other Holocaust survivors, was particular to the Jewish customs but the phrase'due south meaning was later broadened to other genocides.^[13] It is still a matter of contend whether "Never again" refers primarily to Jews ("Never over again can we allow Jews to be victims of another Holocaust") or whether it has a universal meaning ("Never again shall the world let genocide to take place anywhere against whatever group"). Still, most politicians use it in the latter sense.^[vii] The phrase is used commonly in postwar German politics, only it has different meanings. According to one interpretation, because Nazism was a synthesis of preexisting aspects of German political thought and an farthermost grade of ethnic nationalism, all forms of High german nationalism should be rejected. Other politicians fence that the Nazis "misused" appeals to patriotism and that a new German identity should be built.^[14]

Writing about the phrase, Ellen Posman noted that "A past though often recent humiliation, and an emphasis on erstwhile victimhood, can pb to a communal desire for a show of strength that can hands plow fierce."^[fifteen] Meir Kahane, a far-right rabbi, and his Jewish Defense League popularized the phrase. To Kahane and his followers, "Never again" referred specifically to the Jews and its imperative to fight antisemitism was a call to arms that justified terrorism confronting perceived enemies.^{[11] [3] [16]} The Jewish Defence League song included the passage "To our slaughtered brethren and lonely widows: / Never once again will our people'south claret be shed by water, / Never again will such things be heard in Judea." After Kahane'south death in 1990, Sholom Comay, president of the American Jewish Committee, said "Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must always exist remembered for the slogan 'Never Again,' which for and then many became the battle cry of mail service-Holocaust Jewry."^[11]

Contemporary usage [edit]

According to Aaron Dorfman, "Since the Holocaust, the Jewish community'southward attitude toward preventing genocide has been summed up in the moral philosophy of 'Never Again.'"^[13] What this meant was that the Jews would not let themselves to be victimized.^[17] The phrase has been used in many official commemorations and appears on many Holocaust memorials and museums,^{[eight] [two]} including memorials at Treblinka extermination military camp^[2] and Dachau concentration camp,^[18] likewise every bit in commemoration of the Rwanda genocide.^[19]

It is in wide utilise by Holocaust survivors, politicians, writers, and other commentators, who invoke it for a diverseness of purposes.^{[7] [nineteen]} In 2012, Elie Wiesel wrote: "'Never again' becomes more than a slogan: Information technology's a prayer, a promise, a vow... never again the glorification of base of operations, ugly, dark violence." The Usa Holocaust Memorial Museum made the phrase, in its universal sense, the theme of its 2013 Days of Remembrance, urging people to wait out for the "warning signs" of genocide.^[11]

In 2016, Samuel Totten suggested that the "once powerful admonition [has] become a platitude" because it is repeatedly used even as genocides go along to occur, and condemnation of genocide tends to merely occur afterward it is already over.^[seven] For an increasing number of critics, the phrase has become empty and overused.^[8] Others, including Adama Dieng, have noted that genocide has continued to occur, not never once more just "time and again" or "again and again" subsequently World State of war Two.^{[9] [twenty] [21] [xix] [vii] [17]} In 2020, several critics of the Chinese government used the phrase to refer to the perceived lack of international reaction to the Uyghur genocide.^{[22] [23] [24] [25]} On ane March 2022, subsequently the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center was hit by Russian missiles and shells during the battle of Kyiv, Ukraine'south President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued that "never again" means not being silent well-nigh Russia'southward aggression, lest history repeat itself.^[26]

Multiple U.s. presidents, including Jimmy Carter in 1979, Ronald Reagan in 1984, George H. W. Bush in 1991, Beak Clinton in 1993, and Barack Obama in 2011, have promised that the Holocaust would non happen once again, and that action would be forthcoming to stop genocide.^{[xix] [nine] [11]} However, genocide occurred during their presidencies: Kingdom of cambodia in Carter'south case, Anfal genocide during Reagan'south presidency, Bosnia for Bush and Clinton, Rwanda under Clinton, and Yazidi genocide for Obama.^{[27] [9]} Elie Wiesel wrote that if "never over again" were upheld "at that place would be no Cambodia, and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia."^[28] Totten argued that the phrase would only recover its gravitas if "no one just those who are truly serious about preventing another Holocaust" invoked it.^[7]

Other uses [edit]

In Argentina, the phrase Nunca más (never more) is used in annual commemorations of the 1976 Argentine coup, to emphasize connected opposition to war machine coups, dictatorship, and political violence, and a commitment to democracy and homo rights.^{[29] [30]} "Never over again" has also been used in commemoration of Japanese American internment and the Chinese Exclusion Act.^[11]

After the September xi attacks, President George W. Bush alleged that terrorism would be allowed to triumph "never again". He referenced the phrase when defending the trial of non-citizens in military machine courts for terrorism-related offenses and mass surveillance policies adopted by his administration. Bush-league commented, "Strange terrorists and agents must never again be allowed to use our freedoms against us." His words echoed a speech that his begetter had given after winning the Gulf War: "never again be held earnest to the darker side of human nature".^[31]

The phrase has been used by political advocacy groups Never Over again Action, which opposes clearing detention in the United states of america, and by Never Once again MSD, a group that campaigns against gun violence in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas shooting.^{[11] [32]}

Meet also [edit]

• Responsibility to protect
• The war to cease state of war
• Never forget
• Lest we forget

References [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_again

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