Has the Jewish Community Failed “Never Again” for the Uyghurs?

By Leo Brown | May 12, 2021

On January 19, 2021, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the long-overdue determination that the government of China is carrying out a genocide against the Uyghurs and other Turkic groups in the Xinjiang autonomous territory in China. Concentration camps have been erected across the region, imprisoning an estimated 1-3 million people, the largest mass-detention of an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust. Mosques have been destroyed, use of language and cultural expression limited, there have been widespread reports of mass rape, slave labour and murder. Due to the Chinese government’s techno-authoritarian control over information, accurate data and the true extent of these tragedies are unknown.

For years, the world and the Jewish community have stayed silent amidst these atrocities, but that has slowly changed and people are beginning to speak out. However, like the rest of the world, the genocide has still not become an urgent priority within the Jewish community. This begs the question: has the Jewish community failed in advocating its pledge of ‘Never Again’ for the Uyghurs?

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