The Genocide and the Jews of Boston
An interesting article in The New York Times about the Armenian Genocide and some Jewish communities of the East summs up the Foxman issue that wasn’t brought up to such a national level at the time of the heat a few months ago.
Our friends at Jewcy.com are also quoted in the article. Click here to read the article.
The debate in this affluent Boston suburb, home to many Jews and Armenians, centered on a local program to increase awareness of bias. The issue was not the program itself, but its sponsor, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish advocacy group, which has taken a stand against a proposed Congressional resolution condemning the Armenians’ deaths as genocide.
“If you deny one genocide,” said Dr. Jack Nusan Porter, a child of Holocaust survivors and a genocide studies scholar who attended the meeting, “you deny all genocides.”
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