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But to What End?

Let’s cut to the chase. The Jewish Holocaust was a horrific episode in history that should never be forgotten or repeated in any shape or form. The murder of 6 million innocent civilians by Nazis constituted crimes against humanity and genocide. Many of the perpetrators were rightly tried and punished. And from 1945 to 2018, the German government paid approximately $87 billion in restitution and compensation to Holocaust victims and their heirs.

Jews were right to say “Never Again.” But they left out a few important words. “Never Again for Any Race or Religion.” This more complete mantra would have been compassionate and inclusive. It would have covered an even earlier horrific twentieth century genocide that President Biden spoke about on April 24, 2023, “Today, we pause to remember the lives lost during the Medz Yeghern — the Armenian genocide — and renew our pledge to never forget. On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople — the start of a systematic campaign of violence against the Armenian community. In the years that followed, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths — a tragedy that forever affected generations of Armenian families.” “Never Again for Any Race or Religion” would have also embraced later genocides that have occurred in Africa and in the Caucuses.

No one should ever face such crimes. If Jews had said this and acted on it, they…