Boston Globe, United States

ADL statement on Armenian genocide reassures Watertown

by David Dahl, Regional Editor October 19, 2008 07:08 PM

Clyde L. Younger, the Town Council’s president, said he now feels
comfortable with assurances from the Anti-Defamation League’s national
leader, Abraham H. Foxman, that the organization recognizes the
Armenian genocide.

His change of heart followed Foxman’s tersely worded letter to Younger
on Oct. 3, reaffirming the league’s position that had been posted on
its New England office’s website in August. The statement read in
part, "ADL has never denied the tragic and painful events perpetrated
by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians, and we have referred to
those massacres and atrocities as genocide."

Last month, the Town Council asked Foxman to clarify the league’s
stance in person, after a senior official from Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Massachusetts had rebuffed the council’s request that the
company drop its support for the league’s No Place for Hate
program. The Blue Cross official said the insurance company was
satisfied that the ADL had acknowledged the Armenian deaths in 1915-17
as genocide.

— Christina Pazzanese

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress