Massachusetts Lawmakers Considering Genocide Education Mandate
BOSTON, Mass.—A coalition of over 25 organizations including the ANCs of Eastern Mass., Central Mass. and Merrimack Valley, the Genocide Education Project, Facing History and Ourselves, Mass. Coalition to Save Darfur as well as several Jewish advocacy groups including the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) all convened at the Massachusetts State House on Monday to provide support and testimony in front of the House/Senate Joint Committee on Education in its public hearing for bills H.566/S.327.
The bills mandate that Massachusetts students are educated about acts of genocide including, but not limited to, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, Pontian Greek Genocide, & recent atrocities in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The legislation gives discretion to school districts to incorporate genocide education during appropriate times in the middle school and/or high school curricula.
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was a long-time denier of the Armenian Genocide and worked with Turkey to defeat Armenian Genocide resolutions in the US Congress. For a Jewish group to do this is utter hypocrisy. This is what we would expect from a Turkish organization.
That is why a dozen Mass. cities and the Mass. Municipal Association tossed out the ADL’s phony “No Place for Hate” program from 2007-8.
The ADL has also engaged in illegal domestic spying on progressive/ethnic/minority and
many other such groups and has engaged in lots of other malfeasance over the decades.
These facts are well-known.
This means that the ADL is not a civil/human rights group and is thus not morally credible to be able to write legislation on genocide or anything else.
Do the groups that teamed up with this horrendous fraud of an organization (ADL) know this or care?
Why team up with the ADL? Why not write your own legislation and/or support the legislation without teaming up with a Genocide-denying group?
And no, the ADL has never formally recognized the Armenian genocide. The recognition came in a mere “blog” post. Armenians were fooled by that.
Even if the ADL recognized the Armenian genocide, how does that make it a civil/human rights group that Armenians and others should team up with in view of the ADL’s record of law-breaking?
Read about the ADL spying (this is just one of a hundred or more articles about this):
https://psmag.com/news/kings-garbage-76228
Read about the real ADL: https://www.atour.com/~aahgn/news/20180904a.html
Are readers aware that the main opponent of the Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway in Boston was Peter Meade, a top ADL member?
https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20071028/NEWS/310289947
Readers must become educated on these things and not believe the propaganda put out by the ADL and those who have been taken in by the ADL.
Six months ago I mailed a copy of my award winner book “Ravished Paradise, Forced March to Nothingness” to the future “president” of the United States, the senator of Massachusetts as a token of appreciation from a son of the Armenian Genocide survivors, but she did not even acknowledged receiving the book or she threw it in the trash. How can we trust this kind of presidents who proclaim something to be elected and they act differently when elected.
Many do not agree with this unilateral decision to put Armenian history and affairs at the disposal of (under the control of) the Anti-Defamation League — or Shoah Foundation, for that matter. Gone will be any freedom of speech to mention Israeli occupation of Palestine, Israeli assistance to Azerbaijan intended to harm Artsakh, or anything else considered taboo by this special interest group.