Never Again Is Now
Phyllis Zimbler Miller and Evelyn Markus host the Never Again Is Now podcast.
For those of us who pay attention to the news of antisemitic statements and acts around the globe, the rise in these statements and acts in recent years has been alarming.
And as Evelyn Markus, a Dutch Jew and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, discusses in the documentary Never Again Is At present, these antisemitic statements and acts can come from both the left and the right of the political spectrum.
As the founder of the complimentary nonfiction Holocaust theater project www.ThinEdgeOfTheWedge.com, I have been talking to a range of people in the U.S. and Europe. Jeremy Wootliff of Jewzy.tv suggested I watch Evelyn's documentary.
I did watch the powerful documentary Never Again Is Now — and then I reached out to Evelyn, who immigrated to the U.S. in 2006 because of the rise of antisemitism in Europe. I proposed that she and I cohost a podcast interviewing both Jews and non-Jews about the antisemitism they or others currently face up, their antisemitic experiences in the past, and the start time they learned about the Holocaust.
That bear witness has now go a reality on YouTube with the first episodes published at b.link/NeverAgainIsNowpodcast.
Antisemitism Defined
The International Remembrance Holocaust Association (IRHA) has issued a non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism that many organizations are adopting:
"Antisemitism is a sure perception of Jews, which may exist expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or not-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."
The reason our podcast is important is the same equally the reason this definition is important: To make people aware of what antisemitism is.
For example, when someone says in front of you that Jews only care about coin, practice you freeze and say null? Or exercise you go aroused and yell something back?
Neither freezing nor yelling back helps educate the person making the annotate, who may not even realize it is an antisemitic comment.
What nosotros all must do is exercise how to answer such comments calmly and in a way that educates the other person. In the case of the statement most Jews simply caring about money, maybe an advisable answer could be: "Yous may not realize that what you said is an antisemitic statement said for hundreds of years to harm Jews. I know you wouldn't say such a statement about Blacks or Asian Americans. I promise in the future you won't say such statements about Jews."
Is this a alpine order to learn to say such calm replies? Yes! And we all must learn to do it — to brainwash i person at a time.
I attended Michigan State University in the belatedly 1960s. In my hometown of Elgin, Ill., I had been the just Jewish educatee in my classes, and I had then looked forrard to being amidst Jews at college.
Autumn 1966 — I am assigned to be roommates in Rather Hall with a immature woman from Grosse Pointe and a immature adult female from Hamtramck. They were the reverse of welcoming.
The side by side quarter, I changed roommates to share with a young woman from a farm in Michigan. She had never before met a Jew.
Tertiary-quarter — I shared with a immature woman from Oak Park, who I heard tell someone on the dorm hall telephone that she at present had a Jewish friend.
Then I joined the Jewish sorority AEPhi and moved to the house the following yr.
In September 1970, I would notice myself stationed in Munich, Germany, with my Jewish U.S. Ground forces officer hubby (ROTC at MSU) who I met on the State News editorial staff. Being stationed in Germany just 25 years after the end of WWII changed my life and my husband'southward life forever.
And this brings me to launching the Never Once again Is Now podcast about antisemitism in 2021. You can subscribe (for costless) and listen to the podcasts at b.link/NeverAgainIsNowpodcast.
And whenever yous can (without exposing yourself to physical danger) — speak up against antisemitism and all hate.
Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the co-author of the Jewish holiday volume Seasons for Celebration, the founder of the gratuitous nonfiction Holocaust theater project www.ThinEdgeOfTheWedge.com and the co-host of Never Once more Is Now, a podcast about antisemitism on YouTube.
Source: https://thejewishnews.com/2021/07/16/guest-column-never-again-is-now/
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