‘It’s essential to protect historical truth’: Jewish groups react to Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide
‘It’s essential to protect historical truth’: Jewish groups react to Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide
“If you talk to any legitimate historian, they’ll say there was a real genocide. If there was a real genocide, it should be recognized as such,” said ZOA national president Mort Klein.
(April 27, 2021 / JNS) Jewish organizations responded positively to the United States officially recognizing as a genocide the killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
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“The mass violence suffered by Armenians in the early part of the 20th century not only deserves remembrance, it necessitates it. These unthinkable atrocities, which cannot be denied or justified, caused immeasurable human suffering in their own time,” read a statement to
JNS from the organization. “It is particularly regrettable that such controversy has been attached to a historical chapter that should inspire only memory, mourning and empathy. Our continued thoughts are with those whose lives were taken in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. It is critical that the entire international community, without exception, commit itself to standing against every form of injustice and persecution.”
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The US President has recognised the 1915 genocide of Armenians
On 24 April US President Joe Biden issued a statement in which for the first time he officially employed the term “genocide” in regard to the mass killings of the Armenian community (1915) on the territory of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). The use of the term was criticised by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with several Turkish government officials, opposition politicians and the Turkish media (which traditionally rejects the biased and ahistorical interpretation of this historical event). Concomitantly, this highly sensitive issue has previously been discussed by US and Turkish leaders; however, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not publically commented on it yet.
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