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No Place For Hate programs across the country must immediately sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League because the ADL has failed to:
* Unambiguously acknowledge the Armenian Genocide
* Support Congressional affirmation of the Armenian Genocide
For many years, the ADL, working on behalf of the Turkish government, has refused to acknowledge that the massacres of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923 was a genocide. Worse, they have lobbied for Turkey to prevent passage of a resolution by the United States Congress affirming this genocide.
On August 21, 2007, under pressure from the New England Armenian and Jewish communities, the ADL issued a highly ambiguous statement that some claimed was an acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide. It stated that the “consequences” of events in Turkey were “tantamount to genocide.” This duplicitous statement sidestepped the legal definition of genocide by avoiding any language that would imply intent, a critical part of the 1948 UN Genocide treaty.
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Ultimately, this is not just an issue for or about Armenian-Americans. It is a moral issue for all people. Denying any genocide, anywhere, sets the stage for future genocides.
On the eve of the Final Solution, and one week prior to the invasion of Poland, Adolph Hitler spoke to his commanders as follows:
“I have issued the command -- and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad -- that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness -- for the present only in the East -- with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians.”
Adolph Hitler, August 22, 1939