Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. It’s a denial that enables genocides like that in Gaza to take place today.

Noushin Framke was shocked to find a hero of the Palestinian human rights movement criticize the Biden Administration’s acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide.

With shared interests in arms, oil, and countering Iran, Azerbaijan and Israel have established a close strategic partnership over the past decade and a half. Today, the victims of this alliance are the children, women, and men in Nagorno-Karabakh, who are being killed by Israeli drones and banned cluster munitions.

Sophia Armen responds to the passage of U.S. resolution HR 296, which recognized the Armenian Genocide, and describes the challenges Armenians face in their struggle for justice. “Our physical erasure from our homeland, is mirrored in discourse,” Armen writes.

Author Thea Halo, whose memoir follows her mother’s life as a survivor of the Greek Genocide, notes the House res. acknowledged genocide against Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians, yet most news organizations failed to report the full scope of who were the victims.

The push to acknowledge the genocide on a federal level has hit roadblocks for decades, but recent geopolitical events have forced the issue. On October 29 the House passed H.Res 296, a resolution that recognizes the mass-killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War 1 as a genocide. While the measure passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 405-11, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is facing criticism for simply voting “present.”