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BERMAN 'PART AND PARCEL' OF ADL'S HYPOCRISY
BY STAFF
- POSTED ON JANUARY 10, 2014
By David Boyajian
To the editor:
The Governor's Council is leaning against Superior Court judicial
nominee Joseph S. Berman for sound reasons, including no Superior
Court criminal trial experience and his lack of candor about asking
a politician to lobby the councilors.
Since 2006, Berman has also been a national commissioner of the
Anti-Defamation League, which has long colluded directly with Turkey to
deny the Armenian genocide and lobby against congressional recognition
of it (www.NoPlaceForDenial.com, "History of Lobbying").
In 2007-2008, over a dozen cities, including Needham, Newton and
Westwood, cut ties with the ADL's "No Place for Hate" program when
they learned of the group's anti-Armenian policies. Before and during
that time, Berman neither resigned - unlike some others - nor spoke
publicly against such policies, which remain unchanged. That was a
moral failure.
Even non-lawyers grasp that the national ADL's infamous Aug. 21, 2007,
statement played legalistic word games (www.NoPlaceForDenial.com,
Q&A) such that the Armenian atrocities could not qualify as genocide
under the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention. The Massachusetts Municipal
Association and cities including Bedford, Northampton and Peabody
didn't believe the ADL and cut ties even after Aug. 21.
Significantly, the ADL has never withdrawn that dishonest statement
and continues lobbying against Armenian-Americans, who have never
done anything to deserve such abuse.
The national ADL claims to be a human rights organization and
insists that others commemorate the Holocaust and pass resolutions
on it. Yet it hypocritically works against acknowledgement of a
Christian genocide.
As an ADL national commissioner, Berman is part and parcel of those
hypocritical policies. The governor should withdraw his nomination.
David Boyajian
Belmont
http://www.armenianlife.com/2014/01/10/berman-part-and-parcel-of-adls-hypocrisy/
BY STAFF
- POSTED ON JANUARY 10, 2014
By David Boyajian
To the editor:
The Governor's Council is leaning against Superior Court judicial
nominee Joseph S. Berman for sound reasons, including no Superior
Court criminal trial experience and his lack of candor about asking
a politician to lobby the councilors.
Since 2006, Berman has also been a national commissioner of the
Anti-Defamation League, which has long colluded directly with Turkey to
deny the Armenian genocide and lobby against congressional recognition
of it (www.NoPlaceForDenial.com, "History of Lobbying").
In 2007-2008, over a dozen cities, including Needham, Newton and
Westwood, cut ties with the ADL's "No Place for Hate" program when
they learned of the group's anti-Armenian policies. Before and during
that time, Berman neither resigned - unlike some others - nor spoke
publicly against such policies, which remain unchanged. That was a
moral failure.
Even non-lawyers grasp that the national ADL's infamous Aug. 21, 2007,
statement played legalistic word games (www.NoPlaceForDenial.com,
Q&A) such that the Armenian atrocities could not qualify as genocide
under the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention. The Massachusetts Municipal
Association and cities including Bedford, Northampton and Peabody
didn't believe the ADL and cut ties even after Aug. 21.
Significantly, the ADL has never withdrawn that dishonest statement
and continues lobbying against Armenian-Americans, who have never
done anything to deserve such abuse.
The national ADL claims to be a human rights organization and
insists that others commemorate the Holocaust and pass resolutions
on it. Yet it hypocritically works against acknowledgement of a
Christian genocide.
As an ADL national commissioner, Berman is part and parcel of those
hypocritical policies. The governor should withdraw his nomination.
David Boyajian
Belmont
http://www.armenianlife.com/2014/01/10/berman-part-and-parcel-of-adls-hypocrisy/