I believe that, it is in fact you, that is defaming individuals and organisations without the proper evidence to back up your claims. I would be more than happy to host any evidence that you may have to establish your outrageous claims and also any evidence about any of those individual scholars you have so clearly defamed.

Seda Goulizar

In describing Turkey’s various collaborators, there is one group that your otherwise comprehensive report failed to list as complicit in the efforts to deny the Armenian Genocide: many prominent national Jewish-American organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League.

These groups have been actively lobbying for years on behalf of the Turkish government to prevent Congressional recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Articles in media ranging from The Jerusalem Post to the Turkish Daily News to The Jewish Daily Forward have regularly reported on these efforts. A July 2007 article in The New Republic granted “a special commendation for dubious behavior” to “Washington’s Jewish-American lobby” for being co-opted by the Turks on the Armenian Genocide.

Because of the ADL’s lobbying for Turkey, thirteen Massachusetts communities have ceased participating in an ADL-sponsored program since last summer. Moreover, the Massachusetts Municipal Association rescinded its endorsement and co-sponsorship of this program because it “believes that unequivocal recognition of the Armenian Genocide is both a matter of basic justice to its victims as well as essential to efforts to prevent future genocides.” The MMA statement pointed out the “inconsistency” between the ADL’s position on the Armenian Genocide and “human rights principles.”

Many, if not most, members of the local Jewish community were unaware of what their national organizations had been doing in their name; as a people who experienced genocide, most were genuinely appalled when they found out. Armenians received invaluable support from Jewish friends and neighbors, as well as human rights advocates, who spoke out against the unethical position of the ADL. It is, thus, critical to expose the involvement of these national Jewish organizations in denying the Armenian Genocide.

For more information I also recommend: http://www.noplacefordenial.com.

The ADL has never properly recognized the Armenian genocide because they want to preserve the “singularity” of the Jewish Holocaust. They believe that Jewish suffering is more significant than other peoples’ suffering. This is because organized Jews still consider themselves a chosen people.

And this, of course, lies at the core of what Dr. David Duke refers to as Jewish supremacism.

The Anti-Defamation League’s decision at its national conference in November of 2007 not to take further action on the issue of the Armenian genocide means that it has in fact decided to continue to oppose congressional re-affirmation of the genocide. Even after the flareup in New England in August of last year, ADL representatives have met with Turkish officials to assure them of the organization’s support for their efforts opposing recognition of the Armenian genocide by the U.S. Congress. In September 2007, the ADL’s national director had no qualms about attending an event honouring Tayyip Erdogan, a meeting where the Turkish Prime Minister engaged in blatant denial of the Armenian genocide.

The ADL masquerades as a human rights organization touting its “ADL Darfur Resource Center” as a totem of its commitment to universal human rights but, giving precedence to geopolitical interests, has chosen to offer its mercenary services to a foreign government to continue to lobby against congressional affirmation of another people’s genocide.

In addition, in October of 2007, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, himself assured Turkish leaders that the major US Jewish organizations were by-and-large supportive of Turkey’s genocide denial campaign in the US. If this is not complicity in genocide denial, I don’t know what is.

Thank God there are those in Israel, like Israel Charny, Yair Auron or Mr. Rivlin who are not ready to trade another people’s right to its history for mere political gains. Or Jews in the diaspora such as Bernard-Henri Levy or Andrew Tarsy who have had the guts to expose this cynical complicity in genocide denial.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/T.....-13-05.htm

The letter is a clear rebuke to Turkey and its stable of genocide denialists.

From what I have seen, Turkish rebuttals to the Armenian genocide are not on par with Holocaust denial claims. Granted, this whole controversy has motivated me to look into the matter further, but experience tells me that it is diffcult to trust either side in ethnic disputes.

(Moreover, the ADL and a few other top Jewish American lobbying groups continue to oppose the Armenian genocide resolution in Congress. This is the only instance, as far as one can determine, in which the ADL has opposed the recognition of a known genocide. That genocide has been confirmed as a fact by the IAGS – the International Association of Genocide scholars.)

The ADL used legalistic language intended to not conform to the UN’s official definition of genocide as contained in Article 2 of the UN Genocide Treaty of 1948.

Foxman and the ADL said this:

““The consequences of those actions [by Turkey] were indeed tantamount to genocide.”

The explanation below is verbatim from http://adlandag.blogspot.com/. It proves the ADL has not unambiguously acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.

“Aside from the fact that the Armenian Genocide began in 1915 and continued through 1923, we do not consider the statement to be a full, unequivocal acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide.

First, the qualifier ‘tantamount’ is inappropriate. The Armenian Genocide was not ‘tantamount to genocide,’ it was genocide.

Much more critical, however, is that by employing the word ‘consequences,’ the statement circumvents the international legal definition of genocide by avoiding any language that would imply INTENT, a crucial aspect of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention definition.”

Bottom line: The ADL is guilty as charged.

It is ironic to note that just as the report was published, another controversy has erupted involving the Institute of Turkish Studies and the Turkish government’s interference in academic freedom in the U.S.

Donald Quataert, an American specialist of Ottoman history and a professor at Binghampton University was forced out of his position as Chairman of the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University by the Turkish ambassador after he refused to retract a review he made of Donald Bloxham’s book ‘The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians’.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....04996.html

We should protest the racist Armenians. Without any proof they have been propagating hate campaign against Muslim Turks. How outrageous to expect someone accept a crime he did not commit, and then label him as denier.

Fake labels of denialism attributed by Armenians aim to rob the Turks off their basic right to self defense.

Armenians are desperately trying to find similarities between their losing of a civil war with the fate of Jews in the hands of Nazis.

http://www.opednews.com/articl.....04-30.html

I would like to direct people to http://www.NoPlaceForDenial.com.

That website documents the fact that cities and towns in Massachusetts are dropping the Anti-Defamation League’s so-called “No Place for Hate” program because the ADL not only refuses to acknowledge the Armenian genocide and also works to defeat Armenian genocide resolutions in the U.S. Congress. Clearly, the ADL is being hypocritical when it comes to genocide affirmation.

These cities and towns in Massachusetts do not wish to be associated with the ADL. No Place for Hate is supposed to be a human relations group that fights bias and discrimination. It makes no sense for such a program to continue to be affiliated with the genocide deniers at the ADL. When No Place for Hate has been dropped, more suitable human rights/anti-bias programs have been substituted.

This issue has made news around the world. The Timeline and the News Archive sections in the http://www.NoPlaceforDenial.com website are a treasure trove of information.

There are No Place for Hate programs throughout the U.S. They – and groups that use other ADL programs such as World of Difference – are now quite properly questioning their affiliation with the ADL.

As reported by Holthouse, for many years now, the Turkish government has enlisted the assistance of lobbying groups, academics and even journalists to act as accessories to the crime of genocide denial. A few accessories not mentioned in this cover story include:

* Abe Foxman and The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith International
* Barry Jacobs and The American Jewish Committee (AJC)
*The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
* Bruce Fein of the Lichfield Group/Washington Times
* Douglas Frantz, former managing editor of the LA Times
* the late academic/author, Stanford Shaw
* academic/author Bernard Lewis
* Israeli President Shimon Peres
* the many universities who actively discourage Armenian Genocide Studies courses from being taught.

Why are the aforementioned individuals (with ancestors and/or compatriots who perished in, suffered during and/or survived the Jewish Holocaust) aiding and abetting Turkish deniers of the Armenian Genocide? If the aforementioned stood on principle, refused to work in the employ of denialists, and placed energies upon performing a righteous duty for those annihilated, disenfranchised and dispossessed, then genocide recognition, reparations and restitution for Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians could today be a foregone conclusion. Then the so-called “reconciliation” that Turkey and so many diplomats and strategists hope for could truly become a possibility. A Nuremberg Trial for the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian communities is long overdue.