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ECAJ SAYS NO TO USING PARLIAMENT TO DENY GENOCIDE
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Nov 20 2013
American Professor Justin McCarthy campaigns around the world
against the recognition of the Armenian genocide...and has been to
use Parliament House as a venue.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry notes the current visit to
Australia of the American Professor of history.
Executive Director of the ECAJ Peter Wertheim said: "Professor McCarthy
does not deny that from 1915 to 1923 more than 1 million Armenians,
Pontian Greeks and Assyrians, almost all of them civilians, lost their
lives at the hands of the Ottoman Caliphate. However, notwithstanding
that this slaughter was on a massive scale over a period of years,
Professor McCarthy maintains that this loss of life was not systematic
and was not carried out with the intention of eradicating these
Christian communities, but was an act of war.
The inherent implausibility of this contention raises many questions
about the quality of Professor McCarthy's analysis. The ECAJ accepts
the overwhelming view of history scholars that the killing of hundreds
of thousands of civilians in these communities was done with genocidal
intent.
Whilst freedom of expression and academic freedom require that
Professor McCarthy must be at liberty to put forward his theories,
the manner in which he does so must not lapse into racial vilification.
Professor McCarthy is a guest of Australia and must respect Australia's
laws during his visit.
One of the venues to which Professor McCarthy has been invited to put
forward his views, is a room in Parliament House Canberra, thereby
lending his theories the misleading appearance of official approval.
In our view, no part of Parliament House should be misused in this
way."
http://www.jwire.com.au/news/ecaj-says-no-to-using-parliament-to-deny-genocide/38463
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Nov 20 2013
American Professor Justin McCarthy campaigns around the world
against the recognition of the Armenian genocide...and has been to
use Parliament House as a venue.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry notes the current visit to
Australia of the American Professor of history.
Executive Director of the ECAJ Peter Wertheim said: "Professor McCarthy
does not deny that from 1915 to 1923 more than 1 million Armenians,
Pontian Greeks and Assyrians, almost all of them civilians, lost their
lives at the hands of the Ottoman Caliphate. However, notwithstanding
that this slaughter was on a massive scale over a period of years,
Professor McCarthy maintains that this loss of life was not systematic
and was not carried out with the intention of eradicating these
Christian communities, but was an act of war.
The inherent implausibility of this contention raises many questions
about the quality of Professor McCarthy's analysis. The ECAJ accepts
the overwhelming view of history scholars that the killing of hundreds
of thousands of civilians in these communities was done with genocidal
intent.
Whilst freedom of expression and academic freedom require that
Professor McCarthy must be at liberty to put forward his theories,
the manner in which he does so must not lapse into racial vilification.
Professor McCarthy is a guest of Australia and must respect Australia's
laws during his visit.
One of the venues to which Professor McCarthy has been invited to put
forward his views, is a room in Parliament House Canberra, thereby
lending his theories the misleading appearance of official approval.
In our view, no part of Parliament House should be misused in this
way."
http://www.jwire.com.au/news/ecaj-says-no-to-using-parliament-to-deny-genocide/38463