What is the Anti-Defamation League?

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a human rights organization established in 1913 “to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if ne...

What is No Place For Hate?

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Several years ago, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) created an organization called No Place for Hate (NPFH) that now exists in many communit...

What is the problem with ADL and NPFH?

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ADL has yet to acknowledge unambiguously the Armenian genocide. Moreover, for several years it has actively lobbied against Congressional af...

Has the ADL acknowledged the Armenian Genocide?

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No, not really. After pressure from the New England Region ADL and other Jewish-Americans, ADL National Director Abraham Foxman issued a hig...

Why are ADL's suggestions for a joint commission unacceptable?

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ADL National Director Abraham Foxman has been quoted numerous times endorsing Turkey’s call for a historical commission to examine the event...

Has the ADL apologized to the Armenian community for having practiced genocide denial?

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No. Three days after issuing his highly duplicitous statement on the Armenian genocide, Mr. Foxman, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minis...

What are Armenian-Americans and others asking for?

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Armenian-Americans and others are asking NPFH chapters throughout the country to sever their ties with the ADL until the latter forthrightly...

Has the ADL complied with NPFH and Armenian Requests?

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No. The ADL issued a statement on August 21, 2007 regarding the Armenian Genocide. Yet, this statement deliberately used ambiguous language ...

Why do we want the ADL to support the Congressional affirmation of the Armenian Genocide?

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The ADL must begin to undo the damage its opposition to Armenian genocide affirmation has done not only to the Armenian-American community, ...

Has the US Congress gone on record before to condemn such acts of hatred against an ethnic group?

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Absolutely. Please find two recent examples below: Japan Resolution 121: July, 30th 2007: the House passed resolution 121 recognizing crimes...

Has ADL supported resolutions acknowledging acts of genocide and resolutions condemning genocide denial before?

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Absolutely. Below, please find a partial list of US Congress and International resolutions that the ADL has supported. July 22, 2004 Concurr...

How do we view NPFH?

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No Place for Hate is a positive program with a commendable mission statement. However, we cannot justify support if the program’s creator an...

What would happen to NPFH should it sever ties with ADL?

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Essentially, nothing. NPFH chapters would have to change their names since NPFH is a registered federal trademark of the ADL. NPFH chapters ...

Is this just an Armenian issue?

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Absolutely not. This is a human rights issue. Acknowledgment is the right of all people who have suffered genocide. In a letter to the Newto...

Are there other groups or persons who lobby against Armenian genocide resolutions?

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Certainly. First and foremost, the Turkish government has spent millions of dollars on public relations firms to fight U.S. recognition of t...

Why focus, then, on the ADL?

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Of all the institutions opposing the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the ADL is the only group endorsed by our elected officials to wo...

Why is the ADL not acknowledging the Armenian genocide and opposing congressional affirmation of the Armenian genocide?

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Perhaps the main reason – widely acknowledged by Jewish and Israeli analysts and numerous other experts – are agreements that were signed in...

Have Jewish-Americans in general been supportive of Armenians and Armenian genocide resolutions?

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Yes, overwhelmingly. Jewish historians, elected officials, rabbis, and individual Jews, as well as a number of Jewish organizations, such as...

The following Jewish organizations support Congressional affirmation of the Armenian Genocide:

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American Federation of Jews from Central Europe (New York, NY) American Jewish World Service (New York, NY) Americans for Peace Now (Washing...

Who else supports Congressional affirmation of the Armenian genocide?

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A diverse coalition of over one hundred ethnic, religious, civil and human rights organizations - including American Values, National Organi...

Why is it important to acknowledge an act of genocide?

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Genocide scholars have labeled genocide denial the final stage of genocide. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel has called gen...

Why We Must Immediately Sever Ties with the ADL

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Certain members of he ADL and its associated No Place for Hate committees have asked area communities to delay withdrawing from the NPFH pro...

PRESS REPORTS ON SEPTEMBER 27 MEETING BETWEEN FOXMAN & ERDOGAN IN NEW YORK CITY

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The following are unedited excerpts from the American, Israeli and Turkish press. MSNBC: Turkish PM meets representatives of US Jewish commu...

Reports of Equivocation by Foxman Following ADL's August 21 "Statement on the Armenian Genocide"

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The following are unedited excerpts from American, Israeli and Turkish newspapers. The Jewish Daily Forward: Armenian Genocide Crisis Tests ...

Press Reports of Possible Backtracking by Andrew Tarsy Following His Reinstatement

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The Boston Globe: ADL Reinstates Regional Leader August 27, 2007 The national Anti-Defamation League rehired its New England regional direct...

PRESS KIT: A History of Opposing Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

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The following are unedited excerpts from the American, Israeli and Turkish press. And the final thing the Turks "get" from Israel ...

International Association of Genocide Scholars Letter on Armenian Genocide Resolution

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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS October 5, 2007 The Honorable Tom Lantos, Chairman The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking...

Raphael Lemkin Discusses the Armenian Genocide in a Newly-Uncovered 1949 CBS Interview

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The California Courier December 8, 2005 We are so absorbed in the fast pace of day to day events that we often overlook the fact that many o...

Jewish-Americans Criticize Denial of the Armenian Genocide by the ADL

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Jewish Voice For Peace September 27, 2007 Dear Massachusetts Human Rights and Relations Commissions, We at the Boston chapter of Jewish Voic...

On Joint Historical Commissions

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The Armenian Weekly September 1, 2007 Genocide and Holocaust Scholars Criticize ADL By Khatchig Mouradian Several genocide and Holocaust exp...

Response to Statement by Andrew H. Tarsy and James L. Rudolph

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The following is a response, by representatives of the Armenian Community in Boston, to the Tarsy-Rudolph Statement issued in late Septembe...