ADL REPLACES BOSTON OFFICE CHIEF
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Aug 20 2008
NY
The Anti-Defamation League has replaced the head of its Boston office,
who resigned following the Armenian genocide controversy.
Derek Shulman, a former political director for the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, will become ADL’s New England regional
director in October, the Boston Globe reported.
Shulman replaces Andrew Tarsy, who was fired for challenging the
organization’s refusal to describe the World War I massacres of
Armenians as genocide.
Under intense pressure, the league reversed itself last August,
describing the "consequences" of the massacres as "tantamount to
genocide."
Tarsy subsequently was rehired, but he resigned in December for
unspecified reasons. Sources said it was the result of a rift with
the league’s national director, Abraham Foxman.
The ADL still faces challenges in the Boston area, where more than
a dozen communities have suspended their participation in a popular
anti-bigotry program in protest of the league’s position on the
genocide. Armenian activists still accuse the league of waffling
on the genocide question and are upset that it did not support a
congressional resolution recognizing the massacres as genocide.
Shulman told the Globe he sees a "tremendous opportunity" for progress
on the issue but declined to offer specifics.