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INSTITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE, JERUSALEM
Tel & Fax: 972-2-672-0424
E-mail: [email protected]
GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW Web Magazine www.genocidepreventionnow.org
ISRAELI SCHOLAR IS AWARDED PRESIDENTIAL PRIZE BY ARMENIA
Armenia has announced the award of a Presidential Prize to Israeli genocide
scholar, Prof. Israel W. Charny.
The prize has been awarded in recognition of Charny's contributions to
greater world recognition of the Armenian Genocide and for his academic
researches of the phenomeon of denials of genocide - thus the Armenian
Genocide which is vociferously denied by Turkey, the Holocaust, and many
other cases of genocide which are denied long after the event by the
perpetrator government or others.
Prof. Charny, who lives in Israel since 1973, has responded humorously that
it has been obvious to him that he would not be a candidate for a vaunted
Israel Prize if only because of his strong support of recognition of the
Armenian Genocide and his clear cut criticisms of Israel for failing to
recognize this genocide, but now the State of Armenia has come to the rescue
with a prize for Israel, his first name--hence an 'Israel Prize' from
Armenia.
The prize, which carries an award of $10,000 and a Presidential medal, will
be awarded by the President of Armenia in a ceremony in Yerevan at the end
of May.
Prof. Charny is the longtime director of the Institute on the Holocaust and
Genocide in Jerusalem -which probably has the distinction of having been the
first to link the two concepts of Holocaust and genocide back in 1979 when
the Institute, the first of its kind in the world, embarked on the "First
International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide" in Tel Aviv. The
Institute publishes the only Web Magazine of its kind
www.genocidepreventionnow.org that
reports both on genocide warnings and on developments in Holocaust and
genocide research and prevention.
As reported extensively in the New York Times and many other news sources in
the world press, the conference came under heavy fire from Turkey because of
the participation of Armenian scholars, and the government of Israel then
made aggressive efforts to close the conference down, but Charny persisted
and the result was a landmark academic event in genocide studies as well as
a widely celebrated case of academics standing up against government
pressures.
Charny was subsequently a founder of the International Association of
Genocide Scholars, and a president of the association; and edited the first
Encyclopedia of Genocide in the English language that was published in three
printings and an Internet electronic edition in the USA and UK, as well as
in a partial edition in French.
Charny, who in his basic training is a professional psychologist, who
continues to practice psychotherapy, sees in denials of established
genocides a powerful psychological phenomenon as well a political strategy.
In his many studies of denial of genocide, he identifies not only criminals
and their descendants attempting to hide truths of their serious crimes of
murder, but continuing efforts to humiliate and harass the victim peoples, a
totalitatrian effort to control and rewrite the historical record, and most
serious of all statements not only justifying and honoring the mass murders
and violence that was executed but that also convey intentions to renew and
expand past genocides once again.
Thus in our time, Ahmadinejad of Iran devotes government efforts to deny the
Holocaust and at the same time speaks explicitly of the intended destruction
of the country of Israel - and of course these threats are accompanied by
Iran's mocking defiance of the world in continuing to build atomic weapons.
Thus too, Turkey, under belicose Prime Minister Erdogan, continues a
multi-milion investment in denying the Armenian Genocide-and other victims
alongside of the Armenians, namely, Assyrian, Greeks and Yzedis. Erdogan
this year has twice threatened to deport 100,000 Armenians from Turkey, and
he also continues his policy of closed borders and embargo of Armenia. He
also continues in violence against Kurdish communities and restrictions of
their basic cultural exeprience including of their language. The lastest
move by the Erdogan government is to promote an alliance with Ahmadinejad's
Iran. In Turkey today hundred of journalists, writers and publishers have
been arrested and are on trial or imprisoned for speaking about the Armenian
Genocide or persecution of Kurds.
Charny expresses the hope that the news of his receiving the President of
Armenia's Prize will strengthen efforts to bring about recognition of the
Armenian Genocide by Israel, where a Knesset committee is scheduled to hold
a hearing on the approval of a resolution that was voted by the Knesset at
large. He also expresses the wish that the prize will contribute to an
alliance of many peoples in the world who will fight against genocide to any
people. In recent talks in Athens, Greece and Yerevan, Armenia, Charny has
proposed the development of a new organization, R2L or Right to Life,
beginning with an alliance of victim peoples who have suffered genocide
joined by people of integrity from other nations.
--
GPN ISSUE 6 SPRING 2011 HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!
SEE SECTION ON LEGISLATING DENIALS OF GENOCIDE -- AND THE DISCREPANCY
BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN APPROACHES
DON'T MISS SPECIAL ISSUE 5! ON CO-VICTIMS IN THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
ASSYRIANS, YEZIDIS, AND GREEKS
Author of FASCISM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE HUMAN MIND, published by the
University of Nebraska Press Awarded "2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF
THE YEAR" by the American Library Association Now Reissued in PAPERBACK
ORDER NOW: Toll-free:1-800 755-1105 Fax orders: 1-800 526-2617 On-line
catalog: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu
Author of FIGHTING SUICIDE BOMBING: "A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN FOR LIFE"
published 2007 by Praeger Security International [Greenwood Books],
republished in India and Sri Lanka --which have known many sucidie bombings
including many by women -- along with Praeger edition by three publishers:
Penguin Books, Pentagon Press, and Lancer
Editor-in-Chief, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENOCIDE, published by ABC-Clio
Publishers, US and UK - hard copies OUT OF PRINT, available as electronic
E-BOOK from ABC-Clio
From: A. Papazian
INSTITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE, JERUSALEM
Tel & Fax: 972-2-672-0424
E-mail: [email protected]
GPN GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW Web Magazine www.genocidepreventionnow.org
ISRAELI SCHOLAR IS AWARDED PRESIDENTIAL PRIZE BY ARMENIA
Armenia has announced the award of a Presidential Prize to Israeli genocide
scholar, Prof. Israel W. Charny.
The prize has been awarded in recognition of Charny's contributions to
greater world recognition of the Armenian Genocide and for his academic
researches of the phenomeon of denials of genocide - thus the Armenian
Genocide which is vociferously denied by Turkey, the Holocaust, and many
other cases of genocide which are denied long after the event by the
perpetrator government or others.
Prof. Charny, who lives in Israel since 1973, has responded humorously that
it has been obvious to him that he would not be a candidate for a vaunted
Israel Prize if only because of his strong support of recognition of the
Armenian Genocide and his clear cut criticisms of Israel for failing to
recognize this genocide, but now the State of Armenia has come to the rescue
with a prize for Israel, his first name--hence an 'Israel Prize' from
Armenia.
The prize, which carries an award of $10,000 and a Presidential medal, will
be awarded by the President of Armenia in a ceremony in Yerevan at the end
of May.
Prof. Charny is the longtime director of the Institute on the Holocaust and
Genocide in Jerusalem -which probably has the distinction of having been the
first to link the two concepts of Holocaust and genocide back in 1979 when
the Institute, the first of its kind in the world, embarked on the "First
International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide" in Tel Aviv. The
Institute publishes the only Web Magazine of its kind
www.genocidepreventionnow.org that
reports both on genocide warnings and on developments in Holocaust and
genocide research and prevention.
As reported extensively in the New York Times and many other news sources in
the world press, the conference came under heavy fire from Turkey because of
the participation of Armenian scholars, and the government of Israel then
made aggressive efforts to close the conference down, but Charny persisted
and the result was a landmark academic event in genocide studies as well as
a widely celebrated case of academics standing up against government
pressures.
Charny was subsequently a founder of the International Association of
Genocide Scholars, and a president of the association; and edited the first
Encyclopedia of Genocide in the English language that was published in three
printings and an Internet electronic edition in the USA and UK, as well as
in a partial edition in French.
Charny, who in his basic training is a professional psychologist, who
continues to practice psychotherapy, sees in denials of established
genocides a powerful psychological phenomenon as well a political strategy.
In his many studies of denial of genocide, he identifies not only criminals
and their descendants attempting to hide truths of their serious crimes of
murder, but continuing efforts to humiliate and harass the victim peoples, a
totalitatrian effort to control and rewrite the historical record, and most
serious of all statements not only justifying and honoring the mass murders
and violence that was executed but that also convey intentions to renew and
expand past genocides once again.
Thus in our time, Ahmadinejad of Iran devotes government efforts to deny the
Holocaust and at the same time speaks explicitly of the intended destruction
of the country of Israel - and of course these threats are accompanied by
Iran's mocking defiance of the world in continuing to build atomic weapons.
Thus too, Turkey, under belicose Prime Minister Erdogan, continues a
multi-milion investment in denying the Armenian Genocide-and other victims
alongside of the Armenians, namely, Assyrian, Greeks and Yzedis. Erdogan
this year has twice threatened to deport 100,000 Armenians from Turkey, and
he also continues his policy of closed borders and embargo of Armenia. He
also continues in violence against Kurdish communities and restrictions of
their basic cultural exeprience including of their language. The lastest
move by the Erdogan government is to promote an alliance with Ahmadinejad's
Iran. In Turkey today hundred of journalists, writers and publishers have
been arrested and are on trial or imprisoned for speaking about the Armenian
Genocide or persecution of Kurds.
Charny expresses the hope that the news of his receiving the President of
Armenia's Prize will strengthen efforts to bring about recognition of the
Armenian Genocide by Israel, where a Knesset committee is scheduled to hold
a hearing on the approval of a resolution that was voted by the Knesset at
large. He also expresses the wish that the prize will contribute to an
alliance of many peoples in the world who will fight against genocide to any
people. In recent talks in Athens, Greece and Yerevan, Armenia, Charny has
proposed the development of a new organization, R2L or Right to Life,
beginning with an alliance of victim peoples who have suffered genocide
joined by people of integrity from other nations.
--
GPN ISSUE 6 SPRING 2011 HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!
SEE SECTION ON LEGISLATING DENIALS OF GENOCIDE -- AND THE DISCREPANCY
BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN APPROACHES
DON'T MISS SPECIAL ISSUE 5! ON CO-VICTIMS IN THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
ASSYRIANS, YEZIDIS, AND GREEKS
Author of FASCISM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE HUMAN MIND, published by the
University of Nebraska Press Awarded "2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF
THE YEAR" by the American Library Association Now Reissued in PAPERBACK
ORDER NOW: Toll-free:1-800 755-1105 Fax orders: 1-800 526-2617 On-line
catalog: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu
Author of FIGHTING SUICIDE BOMBING: "A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN FOR LIFE"
published 2007 by Praeger Security International [Greenwood Books],
republished in India and Sri Lanka --which have known many sucidie bombings
including many by women -- along with Praeger edition by three publishers:
Penguin Books, Pentagon Press, and Lancer
Editor-in-Chief, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENOCIDE, published by ABC-Clio
Publishers, US and UK - hard copies OUT OF PRINT, available as electronic
E-BOOK from ABC-Clio
From: A. Papazian