Massachusetts Municipal Association Ends Sponsorship Of "No Place Fo

MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION ENDS SPONSORSHIP OF "NO PLACE FOR HATE" PROGRAM DUE TO ADL’S ONGOING DENIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
April 9, 2008

WATERTOWN, APRIL 9, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Massachusetts
Municipal Association voted to end its sponsorship of the No Place
for Hate program due to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) continued
ambiguity about the Armenian Genocide and its active opposition to
its recognition, reported the Armenian National Committee.

The action by the nonprofit, nonpartisan association of Massachusetts
cities and towns, comes after at least 12 Massachusetts communities
have already withdrawn from the NPFH program concluding that their
constituents’ human rights needs are best served by dissociating
themselves from the ADL, an organization that engages in the worst
form of hate speech: genocide denial.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS