To what extent the Armenian Genocide has “benefited” Zionism is a question often asked in these days. But “contributions” such as the claim that Jews have carried out the Armenian Genocide are clrearly anti-Semitic.
And what troubles me is when a respected website such as www.GenocideEvents.com is sending me an e-mail announcing that “HISTORIAN CHRISTOPHER JON BJERKNESS [WILL] SPEAK IN AN UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC LECTURE, ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2007, ON THE TOPIC OF ‘WHO WERE THE YOUNG TURKS, THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR ETHNIC ORIGINS.'”
Christopher Jon Bjerkness is the self-proclaimed historian from http://jewishracism.com/ whose latest book’s title speaks for itself, “The Jewish Genocide of Christian Armenians.” So of course the idiot was going to speak in front of a small nationalist Armenian crowd in California that the Armenian Genocide was done by the Jews (what gives hope is the fact that this small crowd could not get the event happen at an Armenian venue and, instead, at the United Community Church in Glendale, California). And quite ironically, this anti-Semite’s book reminds me of a similar title by an anti-Armenianist, “THE NAZI-ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF JEWS 1935–1945.”
And please. Don’t tell me I need to waste my time reading a 500-page book that tells me my people were cleansed out of their ancestral homeland by the Jews. The fact that some masterminds of the Armenian Genocide had Jewish heritage doesn’t prove much – there were masterminds who also had Assyrian and even Armenian blood. And, perhaps, some individual Jews have benefited from the Armenian Genocide by having some business competition eliminated, etc. But what does this have to do with the Armenian-Turkish conflict?
I assume most Armenians are, justly, outraged with many Turkish-Jews’ support of the Armenian Genocide denial. There is one like that at the Metro State College of Denver in Colorado, Robert Hasan. The guy is a Turkish Jew now teaching history at this college and an adamant denier of the Armenian Genocide.
Actualy I heard of Hasan from a senior Jewish friend of mine – he was reading literature on genocide at Barnes & Nobles when Hasan interrupted him, introduced himself and urged my friend to make sure to learn about the Genocide that ARMENIANS COMMITTED against the Turks!
Of course my friend was outraged and he is actually now doing as much awareness work for the Armenian Genocide as for the Jewish Holocaust.
Now take this case and make your judgement. Is Hasan a Zionist or a nationalist Turk with a permanent brain damage? I don’t care which one he is, but idiots like him don’t ignite anti-Semitism in me to declare that the Armenian Genocide was committed by the Jews that’s why Turkish Jews deny it! And yes, it is anti-Semitism to blame Jews for the Armenian Genocide. And not because Jews, as every other people, are not capable of a genocide (and in fact, according to the Old Tastement, they may have as well committed one long time ago) but ignoring the Pan-Turkist ideology that carried out the Armenian Genocide and blaming Zionism instead is very unintelligent.
Paradoxically, a select debils are taking advantage of Christopher Jon Bjerkness’ limited “acceptance” among some Armenian circles to misinterpret the Zionist charge in the Armenian Genocide to deny the Armenian Genocide in quite stupid ways. Barbara Lerner, for example, has contributed to National Review Online (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDI2ZmMwMjJhNjMxZGNmZGVjOTc5MmQwMDY5OWY0ZmY=) with her “judgment time” by trying to defend professional deniers of the Armenian Genocide as victims of anti-Semitism:
“…[M]en like Guenter Lewy, Edward J. Erickson, Andrew Mango, Justin McCarthy, Stanford Shaw, Norman Stone, and Michael Gunter — are regularly compared to Holocaust deniers like David Irving and Ernst Zundel, and dismissed as ‘genocide deniers.’ On many blogs and websites, Armenians often accuse these scholars of being part of a Jewish and/or Zionist conspiracy, because Israel has always steadfastly rejected the genocide charge, as Turkey’s own Jewish citizens do.”
While otherwise consistent in providing links to references, Lerner, for some reason, fails to provide any links to any of the “many blogs and websites, [where] Armenians often accuse these scholars of being part of a Jewish and/or Zionist conspiracy.”
I have my own conspiracy theory about Ms. Lerner; she needs to get laid.
