BREAKING: ADL NOW RECOGNIZING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Bostonist, MA
hp
Aug 21 2007

The action of the citizens of Watertown has had a tremendous ripple
effect. After releasing a statement refusing to recognize the Armenian
genocide and firing its New England director, the national director
of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, released a statement
today in which he recognizes the Armenian genocide. Here is what he
has to say:

On reflection, we have come to share the view of Henry Morgenthau,
Sr., that the consequences of those actions [when Ottoman Turks
slaughtered up to 1.5 million Armenians in 1915] were indeed tantamount
to genocide. If the word genocide had existed then, they would have
called it genocide.

Foxman said that he spoke with Elie Wiesel about the matter. However,
Foxman said that the ADL still won’t back a Congressional resolution
that recognizes the Armenian genocide as a genocide, so the controversy
isn’t over.

Out of curiosity, will Andrew Tarsy get his job back?