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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 camp to express anti-fascist sentiment. The exact significant of the phrase is debated, including whether it should be used as a particularistic command to avoid a second Holocaust of Jews or whether it is a universalist injunction to forbid all forms of genocide. It was adopted equally a slogan past Meir Kahane'due south Jewish Defense League.

The phrase is widely used by politicians and writers and it also appears on many Holocaust memorials. It has also been appropriated every bit a political slogan for other causes, from commemoration of the 1976 Argentine coup, the promotion of gun command or abortion rights, and as an injunction to fight against terrorism after the September eleven attacks.

Origins [edit]

During the liberation of Buchenwald, a sign states "Form the Antinazifront! Think the Millions of victims Murdered by the Nazis / DEATH TO THE NAZI CRIMINALS"^[one]

The slogan "Never over again shall Masada fall!" is derived from a 1927 epic poem, Masada, by Yitzhak Lamdan.^{[2] [3]} The verse form is about the siege of Masada, in which a group of Jewish rebels (the Sicarii) held out confronting Roman armies and, according to fable, committed mass suicide rather than exist captured. In Zionism, the story of Masada became a national myth and was lauded as an example of Jewish heroism. Considered one of the virtually meaning examples of early on Yishuv literature, Masada achieved massive popularity among Zionists in the state of State of israel and in the Jewish diaspora. Masada became a office of the official Hebrew curriculum and the slogan became an unofficial national motto.^[4] In postwar Israel, the behavior of Jews during the Holocaust was unfavorably assorted with the behavior of the defenders of Masada:^{[ii] [three]} the onetime were denigrated for having gone "like 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.^[6] The Nazi effort to implement their final solution to the Jewish question took place during World State of war 2 in Europe. The beginning utilise of the phrase "never again" in the context of the Holocaust was in April 1945 when newly liberated survivors at Buchenwald concentration camp displayed it in diverse languages on handmade signs.^{[seven] [8]} Cultural studies scholars Diana I. Popescu and Tanja Schult write that there was initially a distinction between political prisoners, who invoked "never again" as part of their fight against 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 every bit the Holocaust was universalised.^[8] According to the Un, the Universal Announcement of Homo Rights was adopted in 1948 because "the international community vowed never once again to allow" the atrocities of Globe War II, and the Genocide Convention was adopted the aforementioned twelvemonth.^{[9] [10]} Eric Sundquist notes that "the founding of Israel was predicated on the injunction to remember a history of destruction—the devastation of two Temples, exile and pogroms, and the Holocaust—and to ensure that such events will never happen again".^[2] The slogan "never again" was used on Israeli kibbutzim by the end of the 1940s, and was used in the Swedish documentary Mein Kampf [de] in 1961.^[11]

Definition [edit]

Never Again! A Programme for Survival (1972)

According to Hans Kellner, "Unpacking the semantic contents of 'Never Over again' would be an enormous task. Suffice information technology to say that this phrase, despite its non-imperative form equally a speech act, orders someone to resolve that something shall non happen for a second time. The someone, in the first instance, is a Jew; the something is usually chosen the Holocaust."^[12] Kellner suggests that it is related to the "biblical imperative of memory" (zakhor), in Deuteronomy v:fifteen, "And recall that thou wast a servant in the country of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and past a stretched out arm." (In the bible, this refers to remembering and keeping Shabbat).^[12] It is also closely related to the biblical command in Exodus 23:9: "Y'all shall non oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Arab republic of egypt."^[13]

The initial pregnant of the phrase, used by Abba Kovner and other Holocaust survivors, was item to the Jewish community just the phrase's meaning was later broadened to other genocides.^[xiii] Information technology is still a thing of debate whether "Never again" refers primarily to Jews ("Never once more tin we allow Jews to exist victims of some other Holocaust") or whether it has a universal pregnant ("Never over again shall the world permit genocide to take place anywhere against any group"). However, well-nigh politicians apply information technology in the latter sense.^[7] The phrase is used commonly in postwar High german politics, but it has unlike meanings. Co-ordinate to ane interpretation, considering Nazism was a synthesis of preexisting aspects of German political thought and an extreme form of ethnic nationalism, all forms of German nationalism should be rejected. Other politicians argue that the Nazis "misused" appeals to patriotism and that a new High german identity should be built.^[14]

Writing virtually the phrase, Ellen Posman noted that "A by though often contempo humiliation, and an emphasis on former victimhood, tin pb to a communal want for a show of strength that tin can easily turn fierce."^[15] Meir Kahane, a far-right rabbi, and his Jewish Defence League popularized the phrase. To Kahane and his followers, "Never once again" referred specifically to the Jews and its imperative to fight antisemitism was a call to artillery that justified terrorism against perceived enemies.^{[11] [iii] [sixteen]} The Jewish Defense League song included the passage "To our slaughtered brethren and lonely widows: / Never again will our people's blood be shed by water, / Never again will such things be heard in Judea." After Kahane's death in 1990, Sholom Comay, president of the American Jewish Commission, said "Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must always exist remembered for the slogan 'Never Again,' which for so many became the battle cry of mail service-Holocaust Jewry."^[eleven]

Contemporary usage [edit]

According to Aaron Dorfman, "Since the Holocaust, the Jewish community'due south mental attitude toward preventing genocide has been summed up in the moral philosophy of 'Never Once more.'"^[xiii] What this meant was that the Jews would not allow themselves to be victimized.^[17] The phrase has been used in many official commemorations and appears on many Holocaust memorials and museums,^{[8] [2]} including memorials at Treblinka extermination campsite^[2] and Dachau concentration camp,^[eighteen] also as in commemoration of the Rwanda genocide.^[19]

It is in wide use by Holocaust survivors, politicians, writers, and other commentators, who invoke it for a variety of purposes.^{[seven] [19]} In 2012, Elie Wiesel wrote: "'Never over again' becomes more than a slogan: Information technology's a prayer, a promise, a vow... never once again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence." The United states of america Holocaust Memorial Museum fabricated the phrase, in its universal sense, the theme of its 2013 Days of Remembrance, urging people to look out for the "warning signs" of genocide.^[eleven]

In 2016, Samuel Totten suggested that the "one time powerful admonition [has] become a cliché" because it is repeatedly used fifty-fifty as genocides go along to occur, and condemnation of genocide tends to just occur subsequently information technology is already over.^[vii] For an increasing number of critics, the phrase has get empty and overused.^[viii] Others, including Adama Dieng, have noted that genocide has continued to occur, not never once more but "fourth dimension and again" or "again and once again" after World War Two.^{[nine] [xx] [21] [nineteen] [7] [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 1 March 2022, afterward the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre was hit past Russian missiles and shells during the battle of Kyiv, Ukraine'south President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued that "never again" means not being silent almost Russia's assailment, lest history repeat itself.^[26]

Multiple United States presidents, including Jimmy Carter in 1979, Ronald Reagan in 1984, George H. W. Bush in 1991, Bill Clinton in 1993, and Barack Obama in 2011, accept promised that the Holocaust would non happen again, and that action would be forthcoming to terminate genocide.^{[nineteen] [nine] [11]} However, genocide occurred during their presidencies: Cambodia in Carter's case, Anfal genocide during Reagan'south presidency, Bosnia for Bush and Clinton, Rwanda under Clinton, and Yazidi genocide for Obama.^{[27] [nine]} Elie Wiesel wrote that if "never again" were upheld "there would be no Kingdom of cambodia, and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia."^[28] Totten argued that the phrase would but recover its gravitas if "no i but those who are truly serious most preventing another Holocaust" invoked it.^[vii]

Other uses [edit]

In Argentine republic, the phrase Nunca más (never more) is used in almanac commemorations of the 1976 Argentine insurrection, to emphasize continued opposition to armed services coups, dictatorship, and political violence, and a commitment to democracy and homo rights.^{[29] [thirty]} "Never again" has also been used in commemoration of Japanese American internment and the Chinese Exclusion Act.^[11]

Subsequently the September xi attacks, President George Due west. Bush alleged that terrorism would exist allowed to triumph "never again". He referenced the phrase when defending the trial of not-citizens in armed services courts for terrorism-related offenses and mass surveillance policies adopted by his assistants. Bush commented, "Strange terrorists and agents must never again be immune to use our freedoms against u.s.a.." His words echoed a speech communication that his father had given later on winning the Gulf War: "never over again be held earnest to the darker side of human nature".^[31]

The phrase has been used past political advocacy groups Never Again Activity, which opposes immigration detention in the United States, and by Never Again MSD, a group that campaigns against gun violence in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas shooting.^{[11] [32]}

Run into also [edit]

• Responsibility to protect
• The war to end 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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