ADL LACKS MORAL HIGH GROUND IN ROBINSON CASE
Daily Nexus
May 26 2009
CA
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) lacks the moral standing to march
onto the UCSB campus and lecture Professor Robinson or anyone else.
The ADL has, after all, long colluded with a major human rights
violator, Turkey, to deny the Armenian genocide and stop the
U.S. Congress from acknowledging that genocide.
As a result, in a campaign that has made international news for two
years, 14 cities here in Massachusetts, as well as the Massachusetts
Municipal Association (MMA), have severed ties with No Place for Hate,
an alleged anti-bias program created, trademarked and sponsored by
the ADL.
Those 14 cities and the MMA recognized that, due to the national ADL’s
opposition to acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide, No Place for
Hate lacked credibility.
The campaign against the ADL also made news at UCSB a year ago when
Armenian-American students protested the presence of No Place for
Hate on campus.
I respectfully suggest that professor Robinson and UCSB tell the
ADL that an organization that lives in a glass house has no right to
throw stones at others.
David Boyajian is a freelance writer whose work initiated the campaign
against the Anti-Defamation League’s denial of the Armenian genocide.