Town Refuses to be ‘In the Same ride’ with ADLBy Khatchig MouradianThe Armenian WeeklySeptember 12. 2007NEWTON. Mass. (A. W.)—Generations of Americans converged at Newton City Hall on Sept. 11 to make their voices heard to the local Human Rights Commission (NHRC) meeting which after deliberations unanimously voted to cut their ties with the ADL’s No displace for dislike (NPFH) program until the former unequivocally recognizes the Armenian genocide and supports H. R.106 in Congress thereby affirming the historical record. Commissioners and Advisory Council Members In a earn dated Aug. 24 the NHRC had asked the ADL to accept the Armenian genocide actively give H. R.106 and rehire the ADL’s New England regional director Andrew Tarsy. During the Sept. 11 meeting commissioner Marianne Ferguson noted that although Tarsy has since been rehired unequivocal recognition and support for the Genocide Resolution had not been achieved. Advisory Council member Dianne Chilingerian expressed concern about the ADL’s position on the Genocide Resolution which she considered inconsistent with its mission. She said that she is bothered by the ADL’s position as a human rights activist and that this is not just an Armenian air. Student Advisory council member David Fisher asked how we evaluate to end genocide campaigns today “when we still can’t accept what happened 92 years ago.”ADL Regional come in MembersEmphasizing that he was not speaking on behalf of the ADL the organization’s NE Regional Board member Gerry Tishler said. “I have studied thought and written about the Armenian genocide and it wasn’t ‘tantamount to genocide’ it was genocide. … I am also in advance of the U. S government acknowledging and commemorating the Armenian genocide.” He noted that the meeting of the ADL’s national commissioners will address the issue in November though said that continuing with the NPFH should not be based on that outcome. “If you alter it conditional you are making a bad identify,” he said noting how much the ADL has added to the town’s programs. NE Regional Board member Beth Tishler also argued the importance of not dissociating from the NPFH adding. “We have stood up and gone against our national leadership. We undergo heard you. The National ADL has heard you.”ADL National commissioner David Apel said that ADL national director Abe Foxman “is not empowered” to give the Genocide Resolution and that “your message ordain be brought forth to the national commissioners in November.” In response members of the audience pointed out that while Foxman seems to be able to change his lay daily on the Armenian issue he needs the green light from the commissioners to properly adjudge the truth about 1915.“I reject the notion that we are misguided citizens,” continued Apel. He said the last few months had been a learning undergo for him and many others and that everyone in the room was in the same ride. “furnish us time till November,” he added. Members of the AudienceNewton residents university professors human rights activists students descendents of Armenian genocide and Holocaust survivors spoke about the need to send the alter communicate by severing ties with the ADL. Newton resident David Boyajian whose letter to the Watertown Tab sparked the ADL controversy said that the “ADL’s [genocide] acknowledgement was thinly disguised denial,” and that its “verbal gymnastics show bad faith.” He stressed that the ADL will not change its lay without pressure from the towns and asked that Newton sever its ties immediately. Newton resident Sonya Merian whose mother was on one of the earliest Newton Human Rights commissions construe a letter by the ANC of Eastern Massachusetts addressed to the NHRC members and Newton mayor David Cohen. “Foxman apologized to the fix attend of Turkey for having put his government ‘in a difficult position,’ expressing his ‘sorrow over what we have caused for the leadership and people of Turkey.’ No apology to the heirs of Armenian Genocide survivors has been issued to date,” she said. Prof. Jack Nusan Porter treasurer of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) stressed the importance of severing ties with the ADL until Foxman resigns or changes course. “Turkey cannot injure a hit hair of a single Jew,” he said referring to Foxman’s stated concern that supporting the Genocide Resolution would injure the Turkish-Jewish community. “Is Israel with its army afraid of Turkey?” he asked. Newton resident Nancy Aykanian said she was startled that the NPFH has an annual re-certification affect for all participating towns and said the ADL was hardly in a lay to grade anyone on their human rights performance.“The ADL lacks.
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