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Third Town Severs Ties With ADL

THIRD TOWN SEVERS TIES WITH ADL

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
Sept 7 2007

A third town moved to sever ties with a popular Anti-Defamation League
program to protest ADL’s position on the Armenian genocide.

The Belmont Human Rights Commission, in Massachusetts, voted
unanimously Thursday to recommend quitting the ADL’s No Place For
Hate program until the organization supports congressional legislation
recognizing the Armenian genocide, the Boston Globe reported.

"If you have an organization that states that their purpose is
to defend people, you can’t choose only one," said Janet Boswell,
a commission member.

In moving to break with the ADL, Belmont follows the lead of Arlington
and Watertown, two suburban Boston communities that have severed ties
with the group over the Armenian issue. Amidst the initial outcry,
the ADL reversed itself and recognized the World War I massacres of
Armenians as "tantamount to genocide," but the ADL maintained its
refusal to support legislation recognizing as much.

Along with other major Jewish groups, the ADL has refused to support
the legislation out of concern for U.S.-Turkey and Israel-Turkey ties,
as well as for the security of the Turkish Jewish community.

Turkey has lobbied intensely to defeat the legislation, which has
majority support in the House of Representatives but has not yet come
to a vote.

Twelve Jewish organizations — including the Union for Reform Judaism,
Americans for Peace Now, the Zionist Organization of America and the
Progressive Jewish Alliance — are supporting the legislation.

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
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