A third town moved to sever ties with a popular Anti-Defamation League program to protest ADL's position on the Armenian genocide.
The Belmont Human Rights Commission, in Massachusetts, voted unanimously Thursday to recommend quitting the ADL's No Place For Hate program until the organization supports congressional legislation recognizing the Armenian genocide, the Boston Globe reported.
"If you have an organization that states that their purpose is to defend people, you can't choose only one," said Janet Boswell, a commission member.
In moving to break with the ADL, Belmont follows the lead of Arlington and Watertown, two suburban Boston communities that have severed ties with the group over the Armenian issue. Amidst the initial outcry, the ADL reversed itself and recognized the World War I massacres of Armenians as "tantamount to genocide," but the ADL maintained its refusal to support legislation recognizing as much.
Along with other major Jewish groups, the ADL has refused to support the legislation out of concern for U.S.-Turkey and Israel-Turkey ties, as well as for the security of the Turkish Jewish community. Turkey has lobbied intensely to defeat the legislation, which has majority support in the House of Representatives but has not yet come to a vote.
Twelve Jewish organizations -- including the Union for Reform Judaism, Americans for Peace Now, the Zionist Organization of America and the Progressive Jewish Alliance -- are supporting the legislation.
“If you deny one genocide,” said Dr. Jack Nusan Porter, a child of Holocaust survivors and a genocide studies scholar who attended the meeting, “you deny all genocides.”
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The Congressional resolution has created an international furor and deeply offended the Turkish government, both a key ally of Israel’s and a crucial logistics player for the American presence in Iraq.
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zionism and the armenian genocide
i am in the middle of a book by Yair Auron about zionist influence, directly or indirectly, in the armenian genocide. it is fascinating and i recommend it for all of you who love reading history. there is a lot of information from letters and journals that are published for the first (and only) time in this book.
actually, its 2 books.
the banality of indifference
the banality of denial.
both volumes include "zionism and the armenian genocide" in the title.
