In an ad in the Boston Globe, the Anti-Defamation League says the controversy over its nonrecognition of the Armenian genocide in Turkey in ’15-’18 has "nothing to do" with its program of fighting hatred and bigotry. Huh. It goes on to justify its refusal to support official recognition of the Armenian Genocide (in which, the Armenian community says, 1.5 million Armenians were killed) by stating that Turkey is a "staunch friend of Israel" and "the most critical country
in the world" in the battle against radical Islam.
What a pity. It’s central to the business of any human-rights organization to memorialize genocides. So that civilization can move forward, so that the victims will have honor, so that the killers will suffer disgrace. It’s called historical justice. The ADL’s very-political position on the Armenians tends to undermine its own ceaseless efforts to memorialize the Jewish holocaust in Europe. How much of that campaign is also political: to maintain moral support for Israel?
