ADL NE CHIEF RE-HIRED
By Bianca Vazquez Toness

WBUR, MA
Aug 28 2007

INTRO: New England’s Regional Director for the Anti Defamation League
is back on the job. He was fired more than a week ago for breaking
ranks with the national organization’s stance on the killings of
Armenians in the early 1900s. WBUR’s Bianca Vazquez Toness reports.

VAZQUEZ TONESS: Andrew Tarsy lost his job for using the word
"genocide" to describe the wide scale massacre of Armenians in what
is now Turkey. When regional board members resigned in protest, the
national ADL switched its position on the genocide. And Monday the
organization re-hired Tarsy.

TARSY: The Jewish community which has so many concerns and stresses
around the world has to look at every issue through a complicated
lens. You saw that play out here.

VAZQUEZ TONESS: Tarsy says the organization, which was founded
to fight anti-Semitism, should be proud of how it confronted the
difficult moral issue.

Tarsy got involved in the genocide debate after the Armenian community
in Watertown pushed the town council to boycott an ADL program. For
WBUR, I’m Bianca Vazquez Toness.