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READER'S VIEW: ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE HAS LOST MORAL AUTHORITY
By Berge Jololian, Cambridge
The Patriot Ledger, MA
http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/10/0 9/opinion/opin02.txt
Oct 9 2007
What does Abraham Foxman's Anti-Defamation League have in common with
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ("Words that matter," Sept.29)?
Both are genocide deniers.
Genocide denial is the worst type of hate crime. Not only does it
murder the historical memories of the victims, but it also murders
the victims a second time by erasing them from the pages of history.
We were, and continue to be, intensely offended by Ahmadinejad for
his public denying of the Holocaust last November 2006.
We are similarly deeply offended by Foxman's ADL for publicly denying
the Armenian genocide and actively working against the Congressional
affirmation of it.
In adopting the Turkish denial line, Foxman calls the Armenian
genocide a "consequence" of World War I, describing it as "tantamount
to genocide."
The ADL is in obvious breach of article II of the U.N. genocide treaty
of 1948, which uses the word "intent," and not "consequence."
ADL board members are shamelessly playing delay tactics and asking -
in bad faith - Acton's human rights group to wait until November,
hoping that the issue dissipates.
To wait would buy the ADL additional time to lobby on behalf of
the Turkish government against the Congressional affirmation of the
Armenian genocide.
The ADL is corrupt and morally bankrupt, and has lost its authority
to lecture on human rights.
For the past 15 years the ADL has continually traded its human rights
agenda with that of a bizarre foreign policy agenda. It has been
exposed for what it truly is and can no longer maintain the facade
of a human rights organization.
Refusing to be in the same boat as that other high profile genocide
denier - Iran's Ahmadinejad - human rights groups are confronting
the ADL and severing their links with the ADL.
Newton, Arlington, Belmont and Watertown have all severed links;
other towns are in process to do so.
Is Scituate's human rights group linked with the genocide-denier
Anti-Defamation League? If so, it is time to sever links now and send
a strong message that Scituate has zero tolerance to hate crimes.
By Berge Jololian, Cambridge
The Patriot Ledger, MA
http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/10/0 9/opinion/opin02.txt
Oct 9 2007
What does Abraham Foxman's Anti-Defamation League have in common with
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ("Words that matter," Sept.29)?
Both are genocide deniers.
Genocide denial is the worst type of hate crime. Not only does it
murder the historical memories of the victims, but it also murders
the victims a second time by erasing them from the pages of history.
We were, and continue to be, intensely offended by Ahmadinejad for
his public denying of the Holocaust last November 2006.
We are similarly deeply offended by Foxman's ADL for publicly denying
the Armenian genocide and actively working against the Congressional
affirmation of it.
In adopting the Turkish denial line, Foxman calls the Armenian
genocide a "consequence" of World War I, describing it as "tantamount
to genocide."
The ADL is in obvious breach of article II of the U.N. genocide treaty
of 1948, which uses the word "intent," and not "consequence."
ADL board members are shamelessly playing delay tactics and asking -
in bad faith - Acton's human rights group to wait until November,
hoping that the issue dissipates.
To wait would buy the ADL additional time to lobby on behalf of
the Turkish government against the Congressional affirmation of the
Armenian genocide.
The ADL is corrupt and morally bankrupt, and has lost its authority
to lecture on human rights.
For the past 15 years the ADL has continually traded its human rights
agenda with that of a bizarre foreign policy agenda. It has been
exposed for what it truly is and can no longer maintain the facade
of a human rights organization.
Refusing to be in the same boat as that other high profile genocide
denier - Iran's Ahmadinejad - human rights groups are confronting
the ADL and severing their links with the ADL.
Newton, Arlington, Belmont and Watertown have all severed links;
other towns are in process to do so.
Is Scituate's human rights group linked with the genocide-denier
Anti-Defamation League? If so, it is time to sever links now and send
a strong message that Scituate has zero tolerance to hate crimes.