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CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/indexentry.php?entry=263692
An American Scandal
The complaint targets the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
which is part of the University of Minnesota. This Center has a
website for students and researchers which suggests, among other
things, recommended readings. It also indicates that other texts
on these subjects are "unreliable," beginning with the texts of the
Turkish Coalition.
This has angered Turkish lobbyists, who are filing suit against the
university, its president, and educator Bruno Chaouat, who directs the
Center. They have been defamed, they say, they are being denied the
right to speak. They pose as victims because academics have passed
scientific judgment on denialist discourse--which is their right,
indeed their duty. The university is defending itself, of course,
and has every chance of winning this unjust lawsuit. But doubt has
been sown in people's minds.
All this may seem far, very far, from us. In reality, we are directly
concerned. Not only because the academic in question, Bruno Chaouat,
is a French citizen. What happens today in Minneapolis could occur
tomorrow in Paris, if we are not careful.
Among us also, the denial of the Armenian Genocide has its advocates.
And the deniers of all genocides are alike. Not satisfied with
preaching hatred, they want to impose their presence in a discussion
where they have no place.
Imagine Pierre Pean giving a course on the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda,
imagine Faurisson and Garaudy teaching the history of the Shoah.
Ridiculous, hateful, intolerable? Yes, but not much more than what
some people claim to be dictating to the University of Minnesota. The
battle of this university and its teachers for the simple right to
tell the truth about genocide is our struggle as well.
© Meïr Waintrater Posted December 8, 2010, by Menahem Macina at
france-israel.org
Original text in French:
http://www.france-israel.org/articles.ahd?idart=1613
See also:
http://www.radiochalomnitsan.com/blog/?p=2203http://www.terredisrael.com/wordpress/?p=28125http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=65881
From: A. Papazian
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/indexentry.php?entry=263692
An American Scandal
The complaint targets the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
which is part of the University of Minnesota. This Center has a
website for students and researchers which suggests, among other
things, recommended readings. It also indicates that other texts
on these subjects are "unreliable," beginning with the texts of the
Turkish Coalition.
This has angered Turkish lobbyists, who are filing suit against the
university, its president, and educator Bruno Chaouat, who directs the
Center. They have been defamed, they say, they are being denied the
right to speak. They pose as victims because academics have passed
scientific judgment on denialist discourse--which is their right,
indeed their duty. The university is defending itself, of course,
and has every chance of winning this unjust lawsuit. But doubt has
been sown in people's minds.
All this may seem far, very far, from us. In reality, we are directly
concerned. Not only because the academic in question, Bruno Chaouat,
is a French citizen. What happens today in Minneapolis could occur
tomorrow in Paris, if we are not careful.
Among us also, the denial of the Armenian Genocide has its advocates.
And the deniers of all genocides are alike. Not satisfied with
preaching hatred, they want to impose their presence in a discussion
where they have no place.
Imagine Pierre Pean giving a course on the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda,
imagine Faurisson and Garaudy teaching the history of the Shoah.
Ridiculous, hateful, intolerable? Yes, but not much more than what
some people claim to be dictating to the University of Minnesota. The
battle of this university and its teachers for the simple right to
tell the truth about genocide is our struggle as well.
© Meïr Waintrater Posted December 8, 2010, by Menahem Macina at
france-israel.org
Original text in French:
http://www.france-israel.org/articles.ahd?idart=1613
See also:
http://www.radiochalomnitsan.com/blog/?p=2203http://www.terredisrael.com/wordpress/?p=28125http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=65881
From: A. Papazian