Chronicle of Higher Education
Aug 22 2007

The ADL on the Armenian Genocide

Alan Wolfe, at The New Republic’s Open University, is glad the
Anti-Defamation League has "seen the light" and reversed course on
whether to call the Turkish massacre of Armenians "genocide." He also
hopes the ADL rehires its former New England regional director,
Andrew Tarsy, whom it fired for bucking the organization’s longtime
stand that the killings should not be designated "genocide."

Mark Kleiman, over at the Reality-Based Community, is similarly
disgusted by the firing and ADL’s (former?) position. Pulling no
punches, he writes:

"If Democrats take back the federal government next year, there’s
going to have to be a reckoning with outfits such as ADL and AIPAC.
I can’t tell whether they take their lead from right-wing Israeli
politicians because of their Republican affiliations or pal around
with Republicans because they’re in bed with Likud. But it has to
stop. Either they need new leadership or we need new organizations."

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