And then he adds that that's not just the position of the AJC, but also the position of "the Jewish community." Well, all I can say is that whoever Barry Jacobs is talking about when he refers to "the Jewish community," their positions are morally bankrupt and a public disgrace to American Jews. The AJC has abetted its denial by actively supporting Turkish efforts to prevent recognition of the genocide.) Jacobs responds by suggesting that the AJC can't hope to say whether the genocide took place, because, jeez, World War I was so long ago! Then he swiftly non sequiturs to the very different argument that it's bad to acknowledge past genocides unless it makes good geopolitical sense. (For those tuning in late, The Armenian Genocide was the prototypical genocide in that it compelled Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," to seek ways to criminalize the mass-slaughter of whole communities. Turkey's campaign to deny the systematic murder of over a million Armenians during World War I.
Hamparian takes Jacobs and the AJC to task for its participation in the world's most successful campaign of genocide denial, i.e. It happened at a Washington, DC lecture on Israeli-Turkish relations.
I've been sent a recording and transcript of a public exchange that took place yesterday between Barry Jacobs of the American Jewish Committee and Aram Hamparian of the Armenian National Committee.
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