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Phrase associated with the Holocaust and other genocides

"Never once 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 exist used as a particularistic command to avert a second Holocaust of Jews or whether it is a universalist injunction to prevent all forms of genocide. It was adopted as a slogan by Meir Kahane'south Jewish Defense force League.

The phrase is widely used by politicians and writers and it also appears on many Holocaust memorials. It has also been appropriated as a political slogan for other causes, from commemoration of the 1976 Argentine coup, the promotion of gun command or abortion rights, and every bit an injunction to fight against terrorism after the September 11 attacks.

Origins [edit]

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

The slogan "Never again shall Masada fall!" is derived from a 1927 ballsy poem, Masada, by Yitzhak Lamdan.^{[ii] [3]} The poem is about the siege of Masada, in which a group of Jewish rebels (the Sicarii) held out against Roman armies and, according to legend, 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 most significant examples of early Yishuv literature, Masada achieved massive popularity among Zionists in the state of Israel and in the Jewish diaspora. Masada became a function 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 contrasted with the behavior of the defenders of Masada:^{[two] [iii]} the sometime were denigrated for having gone "like sheep to the slaughter" while the latter were praised for their heroic and resolute fight.^[v]

Betwixt 1941 and 1945, Nazi Frg and its allies murdered most 6 million Jews in a genocide which became known equally the Holocaust.^[6] The Nazi effort to implement their final solution to the Jewish question took place during World War 2 in Europe. The first use of the phrase "never again" in the context of the Holocaust was in April 1945 when newly liberated survivors at Buchenwald concentration campsite displayed it in various languages on handmade signs.^{[7] [viii]} 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 equally the Holocaust was universalised.^[8] According to the Un, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 considering "the international community vowed never again to allow" the atrocities of World War II, and the Genocide Convention was adopted the aforementioned year.^{[ix] [10]} 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 volition never happen again".^[ii] 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 Plan for Survival (1972)

According to Hans Kellner, "Unpacking the semantic contents of 'Never Once again' would exist an enormous task. Suffice it to say that this phrase, despite its non-imperative form as a oral communication human activity, orders someone to resolve that something shall not happen for a 2nd 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 retentiveness" (zakhor), in Deuteronomy v:xv, "And recall that m wast a retainer in the country 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 command in Exodus 23:ix: "You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the state of Arab republic of egypt."^[13]

The initial meaning of the phrase, used by Abba Kovner and other Holocaust survivors, was particular to the Jewish community but the phrase'due south meaning was later broadened to other genocides.^[13] It is still a matter of argue whether "Never once again" refers primarily to Jews ("Never again can nosotros allow Jews to be victims of another Holocaust") or whether it has a universal meaning ("Never again shall the world permit genocide to take place anywhere against any group"). Yet, near politicians use information technology in the latter sense.^[7] The phrase is used usually in postwar German politics, but it has different meanings. According to one interpretation, because 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 debate that the Nazis "misused" appeals to patriotism and that a new German identity should be congenital.^[xiv]

Writing about the phrase, Ellen Posman noted that "A past though often contempo humiliation, and an emphasis on erstwhile victimhood, can lead to a communal desire for a show of strength that can easily plow fierce."^[15] Meir Kahane, a far-correct 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 against perceived enemies.^{[11] [iii] [16]} The Jewish Defense League song included the passage "To our slaughtered brethren and lonely widows: / Never again will our people'south claret be shed by water, / Never again volition such things exist heard in Judea." Later on Kahane's death in 1990, Sholom Comay, president of the American Jewish Commission, said "Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must always be remembered for the slogan 'Never Again,' which for and so many became the battle cry of post-Holocaust Jewry."^[11]

Contemporary usage [edit]

According to Aaron Dorfman, "Since the Holocaust, the Jewish customs's mental attitude toward preventing genocide has been summed upwardly in the moral philosophy of 'Never Again.'"^[thirteen] What this meant was that the Jews would not allow themselves to exist 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 military camp^[ii] and Dachau concentration campsite,^[18] also equally in commemoration of the Rwanda genocide.^[xix]

It is in wide use by Holocaust survivors, politicians, writers, and other commentators, who invoke it for a diverseness of purposes.^{[7] [19]} In 2012, Elie Wiesel wrote: "'Never again' becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow... never once again the glorification of base, ugly, nighttime violence." The United States 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.^[xi]

In 2016, Samuel Totten suggested that the "once powerful admonition [has] get a cliché" because it is repeatedly used fifty-fifty equally genocides continue to occur, and condemnation of genocide tends to only occur after information technology is already over.^[vii] For an increasing number of critics, the phrase has become empty and overused.^[8] Others, including Adama Dieng, take noted that genocide has continued to occur, non never again just "time and once more" or "once more and again" after Globe War II.^{[ix] [twenty] [21] [19] [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, afterwards the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center was striking by Russian missiles and shells during the boxing of Kyiv, Ukraine'southward President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued that "never again" means non existence silent about Russian federation's assailment, lest history repeat itself.^[26]

Multiple United States presidents, including Jimmy Carter in 1979, Ronald Reagan in 1984, George H. West. Bush in 1991, Bill Clinton in 1993, and Barack Obama in 2011, have promised that the Holocaust would non happen once more, and that action would be forthcoming to end genocide.^{[19] [9] [11]} Nonetheless, genocide occurred during their presidencies: Cambodia in Carter's case, Anfal genocide during Reagan's presidency, Bosnia for Bush and Clinton, Rwanda nether Clinton, and Yazidi genocide for Obama.^{[27] [9]} Elie Wiesel wrote that if "never over again" were upheld "there 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 but those who are truly serious about preventing another Holocaust" invoked it.^[vii]

Other uses [edit]

In Argentina, the phrase Nunca más (never more than) is used in annual commemorations of the 1976 Argentine coup, to emphasize connected opposition to military coups, dictatorship, and political violence, and a commitment to democracy and human rights.^{[29] [30]} "Never once more" has also been used in commemoration of Japanese American internment and the Chinese Exclusion Human activity.^[xi]

After the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush alleged that terrorism would exist immune to triumph "never again". He referenced the phrase when defending the trial of not-citizens in military courts for terrorism-related offenses and mass surveillance policies adopted by his administration. Bush commented, "Foreign terrorists and agents must never again be allowed to use our freedoms against us." His words echoed a spoken language that his father had given subsequently winning the Gulf War: "never again exist held earnest to the darker side of human nature".^[31]

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

See too [edit]

• Responsibleness to protect
• The state of war to end state of war
• Never forget
• Lest we forget

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

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

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