Stop The Appropriation Of

Stop The Appropriation Of "Never Again"
Anti-Gun Book Attempting To Use #NeverAgain As It's Title
David Hogg's handlers are trying to appropriate the phrase "Never Again" for their book because it sounds cool and will be profitable. They could have went with #Enough, #Nevermore, #Not Ever, But they probably ran it through a focus group and "Never Again" came out the winner.

The problem is "Never Again" has long been linked to the Holocaust.



The Holocaust was the murder by Nazi Germany of six million Jews. While the Nazi persecution of the Jews began in 1933, the mass murder was committed during World War II.

I have mentioned David Hogg's attempting to hijack "Never Again." I have also included a little blurb in a few of my more recent stories. Since Thursday I have gotten into some back and forth's with a few liberal David Hogg defenders, which provided me with examples of what kind of defense they will use.
They are only kids that have no idea of the historical significance of "Never Again":

Ignorance is not an excuse. You can easily Google "Never Again" and you'll quickly discover the origins and the meaning of why "Never Again" has been so woven into the  tapestry of the Holocaust commemorative.

Because David Hogg and his group are uninformed imbeciles are too lazy to do some research is not, and shall never be considered a valid argument to let them use the #NeverAgain hashtag.

The main argument is two-fold:


"Never Again" is a universal saying and it's meaning is obvious.


The Holocaust "Never Again" are being used for the same purpose as David Hogg's "Never Again" so what is the big deal?


To the David Hogg's supporters "Never Again" means

Never again shall we stand by and watch innocent children get killed in another senseless gun attack. There is no reason why ordinary people should have the right to own weapons such as the AR-15. The AR-15 is a weapon of war! It is not used for hunting. It sole purpose is to inflict as much damage as possible on human beings.

Never Again will we allow our politicians, who have been paid off with NRA blood money, to do nothing about Gun control as more and more of our children get slaughtered.

For the Jewish people who survived the Holocaust or the Jewish people honoring those who have been lost "Never Again" means:

Never Again will we allow ourselves to be so defenseless that we were lead like lambs to the slaughter. Never again will we allow ourselves to be disarmed, and left defenseless.

Six million Jewish lives were butchered by the most vile evil to have ever set foot on God's gift to her people, and we could do nothing to fight back. Last time, we behaved like sheep, Never Again.

As you can see the meanings are vastly different, in fact, their messages are polar opposites of each other.

Let's set aside the fact that David Hogg's only desire to use "NeverAgain" is to slap it on  his book, and profit off of it.

If David Hogg and the "March For Our Lives" supporters are allowed to appropriate "Never Again" they will be stepping on the graves of not only the 6 million Jews that were slaughtered by Hitler and his Nazi party.

But the approximately 14 million who were killed before and during World War II. These 20 Million were not soldiers, they were just innocent men, women, and children that were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazi's.
The History of "Never Again."
Some credit "Never Again" to Hebrew poet, Yitzhak (Issac) Lamdan (1899–1954) he is remembered above all for his ‘epic’ poem Masada, written between 1923 and 1926 in which he wrote “Never shall Masada fall again!”

The phrase "Never Again" and what it represents in our modern culture, was brought into our consciousness in the late 1960's by militant Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Kahane was a staunch defender of the Jewish people and he believed violence begets violence. He created the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in 1968 as well as the Israeli political party Kach ("Thus").

In 1972 he titled his book-length manifesto "Never Again." He supported violence against the enemies of the Jewish people, calls for emergency Jewish mass migration to Israel due to a potential "second Holocaust" in the United States.

As the president of the American Jewish Committee, Sholom Comay, said after Kahane’s assassination in November 1990, “Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must always be remembered for the slogan Never Again, which for so many became the battle cry of post-Holocaust Jewry.”

Kahane used Never Again to justify acts of terror in the name of fighting antisemitism. In the anthem of the Jewish Defense League, members recited, “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.”

The people who I had discourse with at Twitter were arguing that "Never Again" has a universal meaning. That meaning is of course, Never shall we allow this to happen again.

I absolutely agree with their sentiment.

But the moment "Never Again" is placed on a book that promotes disarming United States citizens then it's Idiomatic expression becomes promoting a message that is in complete opposition from the "Never Again" that grew out of the Holocaust and had taken decades to take hold in our collective consciousness.

There is no debating what "Never Again" meant. For Meir Kahane, "Never Again" was, simply put, a call to arms. He felt it was shameful the alleged passivity of the Jews in the face of their destruction.

Kahane said:

"The motto Never Again does not mean that ‘it’ will never happen again. That would be nonsense. It means that if it happens again, it won’t happen in the same way. Last time, the Jews behaved like sheep.”

Just to make sure there could never be any doubt of what Rabbi Kahane true "Never Again" phrase meant... His second-most-famous phrase was “Every Jew a .22.”

When an author, in this case David Hogg's book is providing the reader with the "Never Again" context there can be ONLY ONE meaning "A call to arms."

Any Book or movie titled "Never Again" the message must be "We will not be lambs to slaughter, we will fight and we will die if need be, but we will "Never Again" go quietly into that last good night.

David Hogg must change his book title because the "Never Again" meaning in his book means "give up your arms to the Government," sorry that  has been done before, on Nov. 11, 1938 in Germany... Never Again.

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Contact Penguin Random House tell them they must change David Hogg's book title. We will not allow him or anyone to appropriate "never Again" from the Jewish people. We will never forget the innocent victims of the Holocaust or their message to us, written in the blood of 6 million Jews "Never Again."

 

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