SPLIT IN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE

AZG Armenian Daily
14/08/2007

"Boston Globe" newspaper informs that controversies between the
Jewsish organizations escalated after the ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
director Abraham Foxman doubted the reasonability of including the
Armenian Resolution in the US Congress agenda.

Although the date of voting for the Resolution is yet uncertain,
Turkish and a number of Jewish organizations are working to fail it. "I
don’t wabnt to become a lawmaker in others’ history," said Foxman to
"Boston Globe" and added that Congress should not be involved in
making of history.

Although numerous historians accept the fact of the Armenian Genocide,
says the newspaper, arguments about it have caused a split in the
Jewish organizations.

Some of the Jewish figures are conscious of the good neighborly
relations between Turkey and Israel and the fates of 25 thousand Jews
permanently residing in Turkey.

Armenian Studies professor at Harvard University James Russel, who
accounts himself an "American Zionist", says that Foxman’s statements
are inappropriate for a person struggling against Anti-Semitism
and racism.

"This is equal to denial of the Holocaust and is an immoral and
dishonest position," he says.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress