Define This Day and Never Again

Phrase associated with the Holocaust and other genocides

"Never once more" 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 limited anti-fascist sentiment. The exact pregnant of the phrase is debated, including whether information technology should be used as a particularistic command to avoid 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's Jewish Defense League.

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

Origins [edit]

During the liberation of Buchenwald, a sign states "Form the Antinazifront! Remember the Millions of victims Murdered by the Nazis / Expiry TO THE NAZI CRIMINALS"^[1]

The slogan "Never over again shall Masada fall!" is derived from a 1927 epic poem, Masada, by Yitzhak Lamdan.^{[ii] [iii]} 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 1 of the most meaning examples of early Yishuv literature, Masada achieved massive popularity amidst Zionists in the land of Israel and in the Jewish diaspora. Masada became a role 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 beliefs of the defenders of Masada:^{[2] [iii]} the former 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 half dozen million Jews in a genocide which became known equally the Holocaust.^[6] The Nazi attempt to implement their final solution to the Jewish question took place during Earth War II 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 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 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 as the Holocaust was universalised.^[8] Co-ordinate to the United nations, the Universal Declaration of Human being Rights was adopted in 1948 because "the international customs vowed never again to allow" the atrocities of World War Two, and the Genocide Convention was adopted the same year.^{[nine] [10]} Eric Sundquist notes that "the founding of State 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".^[2] The slogan "never once more" was used on Israeli kibbutzim by the finish 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)

Co-ordinate to Hans Kellner, "Unpacking the semantic contents of 'Never Again' would be an enormous chore. Suffice information technology to say that this phrase, despite its non-imperative course as a voice communication human action, orders someone to resolve that something shall not happen for a second time. The someone, in the kickoff instance, is a Jew; the something is usually called the Holocaust."^[12] Kellner suggests that it is related to the "biblical imperative of memory" (zakhor), in Deuteronomy v:15, "And remember 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 command in Exodus 23:9: "You lot shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt."^[13]

The initial pregnant of the phrase, used by Abba Kovner and other Holocaust survivors, was item to the Jewish community but the phrase'southward meaning was afterward broadened to other genocides.^[xiii] Information technology is still a matter of fence whether "Never again" refers primarily to Jews ("Never once again can we allow Jews to be victims of another Holocaust") or whether it has a universal pregnant ("Never again shall the world allow genocide to take place anywhere against whatsoever group"). However, most politicians use it in the latter sense.^[vii] The phrase is used commonly in postwar German politics, just information technology has different meanings. Co-ordinate to one interpretation, because Nazism was a synthesis of preexisting aspects of German language political thought and an farthermost 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 built.^[14]

Writing most the phrase, Ellen Posman noted that "A past though often recent humiliation, and an emphasis on onetime victimhood, can atomic number 82 to a communal desire for a show of strength that can easily turn tearing."^[15] 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 against perceived enemies.^{[11] [3] [16]} The Jewish Defense League song included the passage "To our slaughtered brethren and alone widows: / Never over again volition our people's blood be shed past water, / Never over again will such things be heard in Judea." Later Kahane's death in 1990, Sholom Comay, president of the American Jewish Committee, said "Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must always be remembered for the slogan 'Never Again,' which for and then many became the boxing cry of postal service-Holocaust Jewry."^[11]

Gimmicky 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] [2]} including memorials at Treblinka extermination army camp^[ii] and Dachau concentration camp,^[xviii] also as in commemoration of the Rwanda genocide.^[nineteen]

It is in wide use by Holocaust survivors, politicians, writers, and other commentators, who invoke it for a variety 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, night violence." The United States 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.^[xi]

In 2016, Samuel Totten suggested that the "once powerful admonition [has] become a cliché" because it is repeatedly used even as genocides proceed to occur, and condemnation of genocide tends to just occur after it is already over.^[seven] For an increasing number of critics, the phrase has get empty and overused.^[8] Others, including Adama Dieng, have noted that genocide has connected to occur, not never again merely "fourth dimension and once again" or "once again and once more" after World War Ii.^{[9] [20] [21] [19] [seven] [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, after the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center was striking past Russian missiles and shells during the battle of Kyiv, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued that "never once more" ways non being silent about Russian federation's aggression, lest history echo 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 finish genocide.^{[19] [9] [11]} Withal, genocide occurred during their presidencies: Cambodia in Carter's example, 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 "in that location 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 virtually preventing another Holocaust" invoked information technology.^[7]

Other uses [edit]

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

After the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush declared that terrorism would exist allowed to triumph "never again". He referenced the phrase when defending the trial of non-citizens in military courts for terrorism-related offenses and mass surveillance policies adopted by his assistants. Bush commented, "Foreign terrorists and agents must never over again be allowed to use our freedoms against united states." His words echoed a speech that his male parent 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 advancement groups Never Again Action, which opposes immigration detention in the Usa, and by Never Again MSD, a group that campaigns against gun violence in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas shooting.^{[11] [32]}

Run into likewise [edit]

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

References [edit]

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

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