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    Kasparov: Jewish
    organizations’
    opposition to Genocide
    recognition is “a policy
    of double standards”


    “You can’t talk about the Holocaust
    and deny the Armenian Genocide
    in Turkey,” leader of the Russian
    opposition United Civil Front Garry
    Kasparov said in a response to
    a question about reports that some
    Jewish organizations, like the ADL,
    oppose Congressional affirmation
    of the Genocide. Mr. Kasparov told
    National Public Radio’s “On Point”
    program on May 2 that he has “no
    doubt that Turkey will have to
    recognize the Genocide if it wants
    to join the European Union and I
    don’t think there is any other way
    but for Turkey to recognize these
    horrible massacres of 1915.”
    “And if there are activities of
    [Jewish groups] supporting Turkey
    in their attempt to stifle the recognition
    of the Genocide, then it is
    of course another policy of double
    standards. And that I reject most
    of all.”
    Mr. Kasparov, who is of Armenian
    and Jewish descent, was
    forced to flee Baku during anti-
    Armenian
    pogroms there in January
    1990. The longest-reining world
    chess champion (1985–2000) made
    it on the Time magazine’s 2007 list
    of “100 People Who Shape Our
    World.” Time cited Kasparov’s political
    activism in opposition to
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    "All truth passes through three stages:
    First, it is ridiculed;
    Second, it is violently opposed; and
    Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

    Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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