Watertown Armenians in arow over ADL's anti-genocide stance

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Massachussetts Armenian American activist David Boyajian takes Blue Cross to task for unhealthy relationship with ADL and its continuing sponsorship of ADL's No Place for Hate program despite the recent fallout of the program in 11 local Boston communities. http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/n...sts/x325165939

No Place for Denial announces Detroit area Armenians protest of Abraham Foxman tonight in Birmningham, Michigan.

"Monday 03/24
=ANNOUNCEMENT: Detroit area Armenian community to protest ADL National Director Abraham Foxman's appearance on Wednesday March 26th at the Birmingham Community House (380 S. Bates St., Birmingham, Michigan) at 7 pm. A peaceful demonstration, organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Armenian Democratic League, will be held in front of the Community House starting at 5:30 pm that evening. All concerned citizens are urged to attend."

http://www.noplacefordenial.com/

Needham moves on without ADL's No Place for Hate Program. http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x125179057

Newburyport resident (er, douchebag) outraged at local newspaper's attention to dismantiling of ADL's No Place for Hate Program claiming that the disbanding of the program is 'unfortunate' and the local media's attention to the matter will only serve to accomplish the erosion of Newburyport's "wonderful atmosphere".http://www.newburyportnews.com/puopi...058073416.html

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J-ewcy Joey counting down the days to fatboy Foxman's demise as ADL chief poobah. http://www.j-ewcy.com/daily_shvitz/c...ns_resignation

Arlington, MA to hold public forum on the Armenian genocide on April 3, 2008. http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/x1564568574

Ex-ADL MA regional director Andrew Tarsy gets new gig teaching about Holocaust and other genocides; looks like his reputation needs a little repairing after he got snagged in ADL's hypocritical denial re: the AG. http://www.masslaw.com/break032708b.cfm

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/regional_editions/globe_west/west/2008/03/former_adl_dire.html

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/29/ex_adl_leader_joining_brookline_nonprofit/

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The Massachussetts Municipal Association, a nonprofit group advocating for MA cities and towns, unanimously cans ADL's NPFH. http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...h_adl_program/

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107987.html

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=25684

http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x1767331681

http://www.wickedlocal.com/needham/news/x121156618

http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x987429207 (MMA's official statement)

http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/news/x1620713226

http://home.wickedlocal.com/2008/04/...-hate-program/ (Breaking)

Watertown councilors backbiting over build up to MMA's bailing out on NPFH and recent genocide commemoration at the State House. http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x1041578432

Local j-ewish leader, JCRC's Nancy Kaufman, appeals to "never forget" the Armenian genocide. http://armenianow.com/?action=viewAr...g=eng&IID=1183
http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/news/x1277312548 (announcement)

Armenian Assembly of America to honor Ms. Kaufman. http://www.defacto.am/index.php?OP=71334141

Arlington, MA new tolerance program sans ADL named "Common Threads" seeks volunteers to develop website, and other events re: exploring cultural, ethnic, religious heritage. http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington...sts/x514712737

Somerville (#13) cuts cord with NPFH poetically on 4/24 proclaiming that there should be no intolerance at the local or genocide level; ADL won't answer the phone. http://somervillenews.typepad.com/th...5/no-more.html

http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x828493007

Bring out the tortillas, UCSB ASA remember genocide, goes after ADL's NPFH program; ADL unavailable for comment. http://www.independent.com/news/2008...ucsb-students/

Watertown council commemorates genocide by presenting David Boyajian with a proclamation. http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x1838788302

Watertown resident makes the point: the ADL's NPFH must go from every city and town in Massachussetts and Fatboy and the ADL need to stop the hypocrisy before preaching from the soapbox about human rights. http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x1611219436

[So let me get this straight, the Hub and its beantown brahmins go baseball bat to Foxman's ADL and NPFH like a pinata over and over again for more than eight months and this story does not go national; but, Mel Gibson busted DUI on PCH and goes sugartits and anti-semite while intoxicated and the story goes international ad nauseaum causing Gibson to bowdown and kiss Foxman's ring. Wow!]

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Massachussetts resident asserts that ADL's Foxman is actively selling out the Armenians. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/op...-the-Armenians

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Foxman named to U.S. delegation appointed by President to represent U.S. at Israel's 60th birthday. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20080512.html (Note: George Clooney's attorney also appointed to delegation)

http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/4...y-regarding-is (same)

U.S. delegation traveling to Israel for 60th birthday blogged. http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.c...en-people.html

Circa late 1999, Foxman and this same attorney went to George W. Bush's ranch in Texas before he was elected president and tried to convince Bush to sack Pat Buchanan from the Republican party. http://www.providencephoenix.com/arc.../28/REPUB.html
[... Last month, Bruce Ramer of the American xxxish Committee and Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, along with others, traveled to Austin, Texas, to have lunch with Governor Bush. Ramer raised the issue of Buchanan, whose book A Republic, Not an Empire had just been published. In the book, Buchanan blames Britain and France for World War II: "Had Britain and France not given the war guarantees to Poland, there might have been no Dunkirk, no Belgium, Luxembourg, France, or even Italy." (This view has been shared by a minority of historians, but expressing it didn't win Buchanan any political points.) These concerns did not move Bush, who came out with a statement later the same week saying that Buchanan should remain in the party.]

http://weeklywire.com/ww/11-01-99/boston_feature_1.html (republication of same article)

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive...EPUBLICAN.html (same)

http://worcesterphoenix.com/archive/...10/29/GOP.html (same)

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David Boyajian recognition reprise, this time by the Massachussetts governor at the State House. http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown...enocide-denial

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On 5/9/08, AAA honors Nancy Kaufman and J-ewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston for affirming Armenian genocide; blasts Turkish denial of genocide and states she will never forget same. http://www.wickedlocal.com/swampscot...enian-Assembly

In reprising story of acknowledgment of David Boyajian's activism against ADL and the NPFH program by the MA governor's council in the State House on 4/30/08, mediasource claims erroneously states that story of pushback by Boston suburbs and surrounding townships became international news. http://www.wickedlocal.com/newton/ne...72/City-Update

"Recognizing one of Newton’s strongest voices

David Boyajian, who ignited a nationwide debate with a letter to the TAB’s sister paper, the Watertown TAB & Press, last summer, was honored with a resolution from the Governor’s Council on April 30.

The resolution recognizes Boyajian for his role in the campaign against the Anti-Defamation League’s denial of the Armenian Genocide and for questioning the appropriateness of towns’ affiliation with the ADL’s No Place for Hate anti-bias program.

The resolution mentioned Boyajian’s “successful efforts to have communities sever ties with the ADL’s No Place for Hate and to end the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s sponsorship” of the program. The resolution further described the ADL’s opposition to Congressional affirmation of the Armenian Genocide as “depriving the Armenians of their history.”

The ADL has yet to unambiguously acknowledge the genocide and has opposed recognition of it by the U.S. Congress.

Boyajian, Armenian-Americans and human rights advocates have argued that No Place for Hate’s human rights mission is incompatible with the stance of the ADL on the widely recognized genocide committed against Armenians by Turkey from 1915 to 1923.

Boyajian’s letter in the Watertown TAB & Press on July 6, 2007, and his subsequent activism sparked the issue, which soon became international news.
About 50 people attended the proceedings, many of them Armenian-Americans. A group of Wellesley High School political science students on a field trip to the State House also attended. Wellesley is affiliated with No Place for Hate.

Watertown decertified its No Place for Hate on Aug. 11, 2007. In the months following, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Lexington, Medford, Needham, Newburyport, Newton, Northampton, Peabody, Somerville and Westwood followed suit."

And, while I in no way support or endorse neo-Nazis or sympathizers or their activities, this story out of Manchester UK where Nazi wannabes infiltrated local J-ewish community for portrayal of 1940s war zone complete with Nazi regalia is a perfect corrolary to the Fat F*ckman's of ADL and Barry Jacobs' (Jack-a*s) of the AJC's of the world that think they are entitled to go anywhere and say anything, without apology, regardless of whatever sensitivities it may cause to certain ethnicities to protect Israel's relationship with Turkey. http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?Paren...0381&ATypeId=1

No Place for Denial (http://www.noplacefordenial.com/) reports that UC Santa Barbara held a Panel Discussion re: the ADL and its Armenian Genocide position on 5/22/08 in Goleta, CA and panel members included members of the ADL, ANC, ASA at UCSB and STAND (Student Anti-Genocide Coalition) and that the event was organized by the ASA at UCSB and STAND; you can contact the ASA at UCSB at [email protected]

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So much for Tikkun Olam and inclusiveness, when it comes to 'their' existence, they need not be concerned of acting morally or being politically correct.

http://www.forward.com/articles/13388/

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NPFH controversy brewing on Massachussetts South Shore in the town of Marshfield.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marshfield/news/x630479831/Group-s-stance-on-Armenian-Genocide-questioned

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marshfield/news/opinions/x390626495/Editorial-Finding-solutions

And, on genocide recognition, Foxman continues making an a-ss out of himself unabated in a full expression of the blatant, patent hypocrisy between politicizing the Holocaust vs. politicizing the Armenian genocide.

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2383936&title=After_Meetings_in.html

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David Boyajian and ANCA push for Blue Cross to end ties with/sponsorship of ADL's NPFH.

http://www.hairenik.com/armenianweekly/com07050801.htm

http://www.hairenik.com/armenianweekly/pol07050801.htm