What can supporters of the Armenian Cause learn from the Cecil the Lion controversy?
Take the protest local and make it personal.
Do not march and disrupt city traffic each year just to reach the front of the Turkish Embassy to yell. The Turks don't care. This does little to encourage non-Armenians in the community to enlist in the cause of genocide recognition and may actually piss them off to the point that they oppose you. (These yearly protests get scant national news attention and brief mention in local news broadcasts)
Instead, protest in front of the residences of those who lobby U.S. politicians in the United States against genocide recognition on behalf of Turkey, Israel and American j*ws and rail against them in public forums.
The same way Israeli firsters protest former U.S. presidents directly to his face at book signings and criticize him in op-ed pieces. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/bo...cart.html?_r=0
Supporters of the Armenian cause must get intimatee with those in the U.S. who lobby the U.S. government on Turkey's behalf to let them know that their complicity in genocide denial is exposed and there are consequences to such reprehensible conduct including public shaming.
Take the protest local and make it personal.
Do not march and disrupt city traffic each year just to reach the front of the Turkish Embassy to yell. The Turks don't care. This does little to encourage non-Armenians in the community to enlist in the cause of genocide recognition and may actually piss them off to the point that they oppose you. (These yearly protests get scant national news attention and brief mention in local news broadcasts)
Instead, protest in front of the residences of those who lobby U.S. politicians in the United States against genocide recognition on behalf of Turkey, Israel and American j*ws and rail against them in public forums.
The same way Israeli firsters protest former U.S. presidents directly to his face at book signings and criticize him in op-ed pieces. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/bo...cart.html?_r=0
Supporters of the Armenian cause must get intimatee with those in the U.S. who lobby the U.S. government on Turkey's behalf to let them know that their complicity in genocide denial is exposed and there are consequences to such reprehensible conduct including public shaming.
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