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Mar 9, 2018 · Rooted in the Holocaust experience, the phrase has come to serve a huge variety of political and social causes, from Meir Kahane’s militancy to gun control. By Emily Burack 9 March 2018, 10:30 ...
Mar 10, 2018 · The first usage of Never Again is murky, but most likely began in postwar Israel. The phrase was used in secular kibbutzim there in the late 1940s; it was used in a Swedish documentary on the...
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After the war, steps were quickly taken in attempt to prevent anything like the Holocaust ever happening again. The United Nations was founded and, in 1948, the UN established the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But as this was happening, South Africa’s ruling National Party was introducing apartheid as official government policy. The ensuin...
Since 1945, Germans have had to face the uncomfortable truth that their fathers and mothers, or grandfathers and grandmothers, were aware of the atrocities taking place or even directly responsible for them, and that so few resisted. After the war, for many people in Germany, denial seemed one way to deal with it. But the next generation’s reaction...
The lesson to learn from this is that dark pasts are never entirely forgotten. The language of the Holocaust speaks to a global audience,# with their own histories and cultural memories. In South Africa, there was apartheid – and before that, a long history of conflict and oppression. In South America, there was the “disappearance” of thousands of ...
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Jun 21, 2017 · Observation. June 21 2017. Mosaic reader Jim Schwartz wants to know about the expression “Never again.” “Who first used it and when?” he asks: Was it, as I’ve seen reported in the media, Meir Kahane? Was it picked up as a political slogan from some other ethnic or religious group, or did it originate with Jews?
Apr 26, 2017 · “ Never Again” is Israel’s solemn promise to six million murdered Jewish brothers and sisters who never lived to see a reborn, free and powerful Jewish state.
Apr 23, 2022 · Opinion: The failed promise of 'never again' NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of a 91-year-old woman who surived the Holocaust, but could not survive Russia's weeks-long assault on Mariupol.
