Jews vs Dhimmi Jews on Aremenian Genocide

If a Christian leader were to refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust out of fear of antagonizing Germany, Jews everywhere would justifiably be outraged. We would reject as unacceptable the excuse that "the Holocaust is only a Jewish issue."  The failure of the Jewish establishment to support congressional recognition of the Armenian genocide is similarly shameful. Given our history, the Jewish people should be in the forefront of speaking out against genocide.  Jewish leaders should refuse to be blackmailed by Muslim extremism. Turkish threats of retribution against Israel and Turkish Jews must be confronted and condemned.

The Jewish Journal
We should speak out for HR 106 By Steven M. Goldberg

Notably absent from the
disagreement over whether Jewish organizations should support HR 106, the
congressional resolution recognizing the genocide of almost 2 million Armenians
in the early 20th century, is any debate about the truthfulness of the
resolution. Virtually every historian acknowledges that this genocide is an
irrefutable fact. Instead, the controversy swirls around the question of whether
it is in the interest of the Jewish community to take a position that might
provoke anti-Semitism in Turkey
or harm Turkish-Israeli relations. What Turkish Jewish community? Thery have all but fled that tolerant Islamic country that just elected thei first Islamist since 1923.

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HR 106 already has 227 co-sponsors in
the House of Representatives and is supported by a majority of Jewish senators
and congressmen across the nation, including Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.), and Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles), Howard Berman (D-Van
Nuys), Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) and Jane Harman (D-Venice). Most of the
Jewish organizational establishment, however, is either waffling or desperately
trying to avoid the issue. The facts are embarrassing.

Jewish lay leadership is embarrassing and must be ousted.

Abraham Foxman,
national director of the Anti-Defamation League, initially declined to take a
position on whether the Armenian genocide occurred. When the ADL’s executive
director in Boston publicly criticized the
refusal to acknowledge the Armenian genocide and called it "morally
indefensible," Foxman fired him. Shortly thereafter, two ADL board members
resigned in protest.

FIRE FOXMAN!

As a result of the ensuing criticism, Foxman
modified his position to acknowledge that "there was an Armenian genocide," but
continued to refuse to support the congressional resolution that "there was an
Armenian genocide."

FIRE FOXMAN! He is an embarrassment to the Jewish people.

His rationale was that the congressional resolution
is a "counterproductive diversion" that would offend Turkey

‘s
government and people, which could lead to violence against Turkish Jews and
damage to Turkish-Israeli relations.

The ADL is not the only Jewish
organization that has vacillated or is paralyzed by fear of exacerbating
anti-Semitism. The reason these organizations have chosen to remain silent has
nothing to do with the merits of the congressional resolution. It has everything
to do with their being intimidated by anti-Semites, in this case Muslim
extremists.

It is a tragic truth of Jewish history that there is nothing
unusual about the inclination of Jewish leaders toward such appeasement. In the
years leading up to and during World War II, the Jewish establishment – led by
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise – refused to protest the Roosevelt
administration’s failure to take action to rescue the Jews of Europe.

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