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guest column
Never Again Is Now
F

or 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 survi-
vors, discusses in 
the documentary Never Again 
Is Now, these antisemitic state-
ments and acts can come from 
both the left and the right of 
the political spectrum.
As the founder of the 
free 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 oth-
ers currently face, their antise-

mitic experiences in the past, 
and the first time they learned 
about the Holocaust.
That show has now 
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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 certain 
perception of Jews, which may 
be expressed as hatred toward 
Jews. Rhetorical and physical 
manifestations of antisemitism 
are directed toward Jewish or 
non-Jewish individuals and/or 
their property, toward Jewish 
community institutions and 
religious facilities.”
The reason our podcast 
is important is the same as 
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 money, do you 
freeze and say nothing? Or do 
you get angry and yell some-
thing back?
Neither freezing nor yelling 

Phyllis 
Zimbler 
Miller

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