{"id":17783,"date":"2014-05-27T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2014-05-27T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:21:46","slug":"after-years-of-denial-foxman-recognizes-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=17783","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Denial, Foxman Recognizes Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BY LAURA BOGHOSIAN<br \/>\nAsbarez.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(May 23) BOSTON\u2014After years of equivocation, Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman has publicly acknowledged that the Turkish massacres of the Armenian people constituted genocide. <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568  \u2192--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This recognition comes after a seven-year campaign in which the Armenian and Jewish communities, as well as human rights activists and local officials, demanded that the ADL affirm this historical truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In remarks delivered at Suffolk University Law School\u2019s commencement on May 17, Foxman stated, \u201cHad there been people of courage to act in 1915 when the Armenian genocide was taking place, had there been international intervention when massacres in Cambodia, Bosnia, and the genocide in Rwanda were happening, innocent lives in great numbers could have been saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement that Foxman would deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary degree unleashed widespread criticism that the university planned to honor a man who refused to issue a clear statement on the Armenian Genocide and who actively lobbied against its recognition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Groups including the Suffolk chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Suffolk student organizations, the Armenian Bar Association, Suffolk alumni, and others called on Suffolk to rescind its invitation. When Suffolk refused, several faculty members carried small Armenian flags in silent protest onto the stage where Foxman spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foxman\u2019s Suffolk remarks stand in contrast to the ADL\u2019s 2007 statement that the \u201cconsequences\u201d of the Turkish government\u2019s actions were \u201ctantamount to genocide.\u201d The Armenian community and its supporters rejected that statement as its qualifiers circumvented the intent required by the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An ADL statement one year later that alleged it had \u201creferred to those massacres and atrocities as genocide\u201d was likewise rebuffed as it only \u201creferred\u201d to the unacceptable 2007 statement. Recent claims by Foxman and the ADL that this 2008 release clearly and unequivocally acknowledged the Armenian Genocide are false.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since that time, human rights activists have continued to press the ADL for an unequivocal acknowledgement, as well as an end to its lobbying for the Turkish government to prevent passage of a Congressional Resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAbe Foxman\u2019s reference to the Armenian massacres as genocide, without any qualifiers, is a welcome change,\u201d stated Herman Purutyan, Massachusetts chair of the Armenian Assembly of America. \u201cEven though Foxman continues to assert that he had previously acknowledged the genocide, the basis for his claims are a chain of statements, at the root of which is the 2007 statement full of qualifications, intended to obfuscate the question. We expect that Foxman\u2019s statement at Suffolk is not only his personal view, but that it also reflects ADL\u2019s official position. ADL should confirm this by publishing an unequivocal statement on its website, and joining in the efforts to have the U. S. Congress recognize the Armenian Genocide by passing the resolution currently before it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foxman\u2019s remarks reflected growing support by Jewish organizations for recognition of the Armenian Genocide. In March, ADL New England Regional Director Robert Trestan was quoted stating that the ADL \u201cnow fully recognizes the Armenian genocide without reservation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following month, the American Jewish Committee issued a release that read, \u201cWe pause in mournful tribute to the memories of the estimated 1.5 million victims of the Meds Yeghern, the Genocide of Armenians, committed in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.\u201d Describing the genocide as \u201can unspeakable crime against humanity,\u201d the AJC called upon the Turkish government to confront the truth. \u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, the Israeli Knesset discussed recognition of the Armenian Genocide at a plenum on May 13. A motion by the left-wing Meretz party to recognize the genocide before its 100th anniversary next year received support from across the political spectrum, including from the rightist coalition government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese reversals of position by major Jewish organizations are quite significant for all those committed to recognition of the genocides of the past century,\u201d stated Dikran Kaligian, chairman of the Armenian National Committee of Eastern Massachusetts. \u201cNo longer will Turkey be able to exploit the differences between the positions of these organizations\u2019 leadership and their membership \u2014 the vast majority of whom want nothing to do with Turkey\u2019s genocide denial campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Locally, the Coalition to Recognize the Armenian Genocide was established in 2008 to foster communication between the Armenian and Jewish communities and to raise awareness of the Armenian Genocide within the Jewish community. Its objectives include advocating for official recognition of the genocide by the United States government. Coalition members include representatives from the <a title=\"ANCA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenian National Committee of America<\/a> and the Armenian Assembly of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coalition facilitated contacts between Armenian activists and members of the ADL and created an online petition calling on Congress to recognize the Armenian Genocide that has gathered over 21,000 signatures to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Laura Boghosian is a member of the Coalition to Recognize the Armenian Genocide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Photo: The ADL&#8217;s National Director Abraham Foxman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LAURA BOGHOSIAN Asbarez.com (May 23) BOSTON\u2014After years of equivocation, Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman has publicly acknowledged that the Turkish massacres of the Armenian people constituted genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-17783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news-","tag-anc-eastern-massachusetts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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