'Never Again' means never again for anyone, or else it doesn't mean anything at all.
Last December, I was arrested on the border in San Diego while standing with faith leaders to protest, among other things, Trump's unlawful incarceration of immigrants. My experiences on the border and at immigrant detention centers in my home state of Illinois have left me with no doubt whatsoever that our nation is warehousing humanity in concentration camps—and that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is correct when she refers to them by this term.
It is deeply problematic, highly partisan—and historically incorrect—to declare that the use of"concentration camps" is to be constrained to the limits of"Holocaust terminology" As, the term"was invented by a Spanish official ...during Cuba's 1895 independence war." FDR, notably, also used the term in reference to his Executive Order to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II.
The same is true of AOC's impassioned and all-too familiar call,"Never again." As a rabbi, a Jew and a person of conscience, allow me to put it as plainly as I can: AOC's use of this phrase was altogether appropriate. I do not and cannot view this call as"Holocaust terminology." On the contrary:"Never Again" means never again for anyone, or else it doesn't mean anything at all.
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