SPLIT IN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE

"Boston Globe" newspaper informs that controversies between the Jewsish organizations escalated after the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) director Abraham Foxman doubted the reasonability of including the Armenian Resolution in the US Congress agenda.
Although the date of voting for the Resolution is yet uncertain, Turkish and a number of Jewish organizations are working to fail it. "I don't wabnt to become a lawmaker in others' history," said Foxman to "Boston Globe" and added that Congress should not be involved in making of history.
Although numerous historians accept the fact of the Armenian Genocide, says the newspaper, arguments about it have caused a split in the Jewish organizations. Some of the Jewish figures are conscious of the good neighborly relations between Turkey and Israel and the fates of 25 thousand Jews permanently residing in Turkey.
Armenian Studies professor at Harvard University James Russel, who accounts himself an "American Zionist", says that Foxman's statements are inappropriate for a person struggling against Anti-Semitism and racism. "This is equal to denial of the Holocaust and is an immoral and dishonest position," he says.

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SPLIT IN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE
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"Boston Globe" newspaper informs that controversies between the Jewsish organizations escalated after the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) director Abraham Foxman doubted the reasonability of including the ...