Confronting the Denialist Jewish Lobby: Mission Accomplished?
By any objective measure, the two-year-old campaign against the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) denial of the Armenian Genocide has been a spectacular success. The ADL, the Jewish American community, Israel, and Turkey were taken by surprise and shaken to their roots. As shockwaves from the campaign spread, Turkey’s ambassador to Israel cut short his vacation to return to Tel Aviv to complain to Israeli leaders.
Grassroots Armenians in Massachusetts have flexed, and continue to flex, their political muscles as never before, targeting the Massachusetts Municipal Association and the elected officials and human rights commissions of 14 cities: Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Easton, Lexington, Medford, Needham, Newburyport, Newton, Northampton, Peabody, Somerville, Watertown, and Westwood.
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Bravo to David Boyajian for his stalwart efforts. Unfortunately while we might have won the No Place for Hate battle, I fear Armenians are losing the PR war with the Turks and their bosom buddies by a landslide! It’s everywhere. People on the Huffington Post advising people to read Professor McCarthy, Steven Schlesinger writing about “Armenian disappearances.” The list goes on and on. Without a central agency whose sole purpose it is to watchdog the media and counter every falsehood, I don’t see how we can prevail.
Congratulations to David Boyajian for earning the 2009 Humanitarian Award from the Knights of Vartan for his role in exposing the Anti-Defamation League’s anti-Armenian bias!
This guy thinks the entire fate of the Armenian nation rests on the ADL issue, as if it is going to liberate western Armenia, resolve the Karabagh issue, the situation of Armenians in Javakhk, and all other problems we are facing as a nation. There’s a Turkish saying about the cow having only one song, and it being about the hay it eats!
Great Article! Armenians should have been outraged when PM Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his disdain for the Iranian Presidents rantings against Israel. Netanyahu rails against those countries that remained in the UN Hall to listen . . . “Have you no shame? Have you no decency?” Yet Israel has never recognized the Armenian Genocide themselves and continues to stand with Genocide Denier Turkey . . . Armenians should be asking Mr. Netanyahu and Israel . .. HAVE YOU NO SHAME? HAVE YOU NO DECENCY? I guess Armenians aren’t allowed to utter such words.