Baton Used in Never Say Never Again

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 verbal meaning of the phrase is debated, including whether it should exist used as a particularistic command to avert a 2d 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's Jewish Defence force League.

The phrase is widely used past politicians and writers and it likewise 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 control or abortion rights, and as an injunction to fight against 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 by the Nazis / Death TO THE NAZI CRIMINALS"^[1]

The slogan "Never again shall Masada fall!" is derived from a 1927 epic verse form, Masada, past Yitzhak Lamdan.^{[2] [3]} The poem is well-nigh 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 be captured. In Zionism, the story of Masada became a national myth and was lauded as an example of Jewish heroism. Considered one of the near meaning examples of early Yishuv literature, Masada achieved massive popularity amid Zionists in the land 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 beliefs of Jews during the Holocaust was unfavorably contrasted with the behavior of the defenders of Masada:^{[2] [3]} the old 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 almost six 1000000 Jews in a genocide which became known as the Holocaust.^[6] The Nazi effort to implement their last solution to the Jewish question took place during World War Ii in Europe. The kickoff apply 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 various languages on handmade signs.^{[vii] [8]} Cultural studies scholars Diana I. Popescu and Tanja Schult write that there was initially a distinction between political prisoners, who invoked "never once more" equally 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 as the Holocaust was universalised.^[viii] According to the Un, the Universal Declaration of Homo Rights was adopted in 1948 because "the international community vowed never again to permit" the atrocities of World War II, and the Genocide Convention was adopted the same twelvemonth.^{[9] [ten]} Eric Sundquist notes that "the founding of State 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 over again".^[2] The slogan "never again" was used on Israeli kibbutzim past the end of the 1940s, and was used in the Swedish documentary Mein Kampf [de] in 1961.^[xi]

Definition [edit]

Never Again! A Programme for Survival (1972)

According to Hans Kellner, "Unpacking the semantic contents of 'Never Again' would be an enormous job. Suffice it to say that this phrase, despite its non-imperative form as a speech 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 normally chosen the Holocaust."^[12] Kellner suggests that it is related to the "biblical imperative of memory" (zakhor), in Deuteronomy 5:15, "And remember that one thousand wast a servant in the land 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 as well closely related to the biblical control in Exodus 23:9: "You shall not 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 meaning of the phrase, used by Abba Kovner and other Holocaust survivors, was detail to the Jewish customs only the phrase's meaning was later broadened to other genocides.^[13] Information technology is withal a matter of debate whether "Never once again" refers primarily to Jews ("Never again can we allow Jews to be victims of another Holocaust") or whether it has a universal meaning ("Never again shall the world allow genocide to take place anywhere against whatever grouping"). Still, most politicians employ it in the latter sense.^[7] The phrase is used commonly in postwar High german politics, simply it has different meanings. According to one interpretation, because Nazism was a synthesis of preexisting aspects of German language political thought and an extreme form of indigenous nationalism, all forms of German nationalism should exist rejected. Other politicians argue that the Nazis "misused" appeals to patriotism and that a new German identity should be built.^[xiv]

Writing almost the phrase, Ellen Posman noted that "A by though often recent humiliation, and an emphasis on former victimhood, tin can lead to a communal desire for a show of force that can easily plough tearing."^[xv] 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.^{[xi] [three] [sixteen]} The Jewish Defense League song included the passage "To our slaughtered brethren and lonely widows: / Never once more will our people'south blood exist shed past water, / Never once more will such things be heard in Judea." Afterward Kahane's death in 1990, Sholom Comay, president of the American Jewish Commission, said "Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must ever exist remembered for the slogan 'Never Once more,' which for so many became the boxing cry of post-Holocaust Jewry."^[xi]

Contemporary usage [edit]

According to Aaron Dorfman, "Since the Holocaust, the Jewish customs's 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 allow themselves to be victimized.^[17] The phrase has been used in many official commemorations and appears on many Holocaust memorials and museums,^{[8] [ii]} including memorials at Treblinka extermination camp^[ii] and Dachau concentration camp,^[18] as well as in commemoration of the Rwanda genocide.^[19]

It is in wide use by Holocaust survivors, politicians, writers, and other commentators, who invoke information technology for a variety of purposes.^{[7] [19]} In 2012, Elie Wiesel wrote: "'Never again' becomes more than than a slogan: It's a prayer, a hope, a vow... never once 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 expect out for the "alert signs" of genocide.^[xi]

In 2016, Samuel Totten suggested that the "once powerful admonition [has] become a cliché" because it is repeatedly used fifty-fifty equally genocides keep to occur, and condemnation of genocide tends to only occur after it is already over.^[7] 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 over again simply "time and again" or "once more and again" afterward World State of war II.^{[9] [20] [21] [xix] [7] [17]} In 2020, several critics of the Chinese regime used the phrase to refer to the perceived lack of international reaction to the Uyghur genocide.^{[22] [23] [24] [25]} On i March 2022, afterward the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Heart was striking by Russian missiles and shells during the boxing of Kyiv, Ukraine'due south President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued that "never over again" means non existence silent about Russia'south aggression, 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 not happen again, and that action would be forthcoming to finish genocide.^{[19] [nine] [11]} However, genocide occurred during their presidencies: Cambodia in Carter'due south instance, Anfal genocide during Reagan's presidency, Bosnia for Bush and Clinton, Rwanda under Clinton, and Yazidi genocide for Obama.^{[27] [9]} 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 merely recover its gravitas if "no i just those who are truly serious about preventing some other Holocaust" invoked information technology.^[7]

Other uses [edit]

In Argentine republic, the phrase Nunca más (never more) is used in annual commemorations of the 1976 Argentine coup, to emphasize continued opposition to military coups, dictatorship, and political violence, and a commitment to republic and human rights.^{[29] [xxx]} "Never again" has also been used in commemoration of Japanese American internment and the Chinese Exclusion Deed.^[11]

After the September 11 attacks, President George Westward. Bush declared that terrorism would be allowed to triumph "never once 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 assistants. Bush-league commented, "Foreign terrorists and agents must never again be allowed to use our freedoms against us." His words echoed a speech that his father had given later winning the Gulf War: "never again be held hostage to the darker side of human nature".^[31]

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

See also [edit]

• Responsibility to protect
• The war to end war
• Never forget
• Lest nosotros forget

References [edit]

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