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Greece Holds a Remarkable Conference Honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Pontian Genocide and Devoted to Memory and Prevention of All Genocides of All Peoples

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by Israel W. Charny An excellent conference has been held in Athens, Greece, December 6-8, entitled “International Conference on the Crime of Genocide.” The conference, which was sponsored by the Pan-Pontian organization of Greece which sports a remarkable 450 or so branches in Greece and around the world, was dedicated on the one hand to

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DECLARATION on behalf of the International Conference on the Crime of Genocide on top of Pynx Hill facing the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on December 8, 2019

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http://efxinospontos.gr/genoktonia/5773-declaration-of-the-international-conference-on-the-crime-of-genocide DECLARATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE 6 – 8 December 2019, Athens, Greece Submitted to the International Community for the «International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime December 9th, 2019 Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen of the

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Live Media News Interviews Professor Israel W. Charny in Athens, Greece December 7, 2019 at the International Conference on the Crime of Genocide on “A Worldwide Campaign for Life: ‘Respect, Protect Life'”

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Transcript of Text (slightly edited): Interviewer: Professor Charny, It’s an honor.   Thank you so much for being here. We would like a brief summary of your speech that you have prepared for the conference. My speech is a dream of action for the future.  All of our peoples have to remember our own past deeply,

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If Not Now, When Will Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide?

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The following was submitted as an op-ed in English to the Jerusalem Post by Israel Charny, and similarly in Hebrew to Haaretz with the additional signature of Yair Auron, but in both cases was not published.  There is no real basis for judging why op-eds are not accepted by newspapers, but we cannot help wondering

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United States Congress Votes Resoundingly for Recognition of Armenian Genocide

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Beginning with the U.S. House of Representatives voting 405 to 11 on October 29, 2019 to recognize the Armenian Genocide, and continuing with an unprecedented unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate on December 21, 2019 to confirm recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Congress of the United States has unambiguously gone on record, “recognizing and

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Colin Tatz: A rebel with a cause and a teacher with heart

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  Colin Tatz of Sydney, Australia was a dear and esteemed colleague in genocide studies for many years.  He was, for me, a clear thinking, decent, rational, and very constructive thinker and leader.  As  a Jew, I also appreciated and enjoyed with him his loving Jewish identification and fine ethnic humor – in general, he

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Yad Vashem Doesn’t Have the Courage to Be a Global Beacon of Conscience

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Yad Vashem is, understandably and with much justification, an ‘untouchable holiness’ in Israel, never to be criticized or regarded negatively.  It is almost as if doing so would constitute speaking disparagingly about the awful and terrible Holocaust which of course no decent person would do. Nonetheless, there have always been significant criticisms by many Israelis

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U.S. House of Representatives Votes Overwhelmingly to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

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  Overwhelming Bipartisan Passage of Armenian Genocide Resolution Reflects the Best of America Rouben Adalian October 29, 2019 http://bit.ly/2q2MeTY WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian Genocide resolution, H.Res.296, was adopted today by an overwhelming favorable bipartisan vote of 405 to 11 in the U.S. House of Representatives, reported the Armenian Assembly of America. “The passage of

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More on “Does Yad Vashem Have a Problem with the Bosnian Genocide?”

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On September 19, 2019,  I posted on the IAGS listserv excerpts from an article by Daniella Peled, who is identified as “Managing Editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting,” in Haaretz English Edition on August 16, 2019.  At the same time I reported that we were unable to recover the Haaretz article from

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Armenian Assembly of America Mourns the Passing of Yossi Sarid, Recalls His Efforts in Israel for Official Armenian Genocide Recognition

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The following story dating back to 2015 was just sent to us by Dr. Rouben Adalian, Director of the Armenian National Institute (ANI) in Washington, DC. The photo of the delegation at the Eternal Flame at the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Musuem in Yerevan is of particular importance to Israelis, so that it is widely

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Haaretz Book Review Magazine Interviews Yair Auron

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Estricher, Noa (September 9, 2019). Genocide: Five Books on Genocide.  Haaretz Book Review (Hebrew). An interview of Yair Auron in Hebrew with reference to five books on genocide in Hebrew: Franz Werfel, 40 Days of Musa Dag; Ora Achimeier, Araratim; Ambassador Morgenthau’s Diary, Israel Charny, Genocide -“And You Shall Destroy the Evil Inside of You”: We

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UN Sends a Stunning Letter Questioning Turkey on the Armenian Genocide

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June 25, 2019 BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/un-sends-a-stunning-letter-questioning-turkey-on-the-armenian-genocide/ Twenty-nine years ago the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities adopted a report acknowledging the Armenian Genocide as a case of genocide. Until recently, there has been no other activity at the UN on this issue. Unexpectedly, on March 25, a surprising letter

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Some Orthodox Jews Protest Israel’s Arms Exports to Regimes That Commit Genocide

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Haaretz English Edition has published an account of a 40-year old orthodox mother of six children who regularly confronts Israeli officials about the immorality of arms sales. Esther Merchavy defiantly asked the former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, “Why does Israel send arms to a country known for its human rights abuses against the Rohingya. Merchavy

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Azerbaijan Destroys a Major Armenian Cultural Monument that was to be Considered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Djulfa is a site in Azerbaijan which boasted the world’s largest collection of exquisitely carved medieval cross-stones as remnants of the areas once-thriving community of Armenian Christians.  The site had stood for centuries.  In December 2005, Azeri soldiers armed with sledgehammers, dump trucks and cranes destroyed the site, pounding the medieval headstones into rubble and

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Proposal for California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Fails to Include Both Armenians and Jews

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Neither the Armenian Genocide nor the Holocaust were included in a recent draft proposal of the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.  Needless to say, a wide range of protests have reached the state including a partnering of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish organizations. Source: This article was read in the California Courier: Taub, David (August 22

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Does Yad Vashem Have a Problem with the Bosnian Genocide?

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“In Israel, it seems the Shoah must be viewed as unique; it is yoked to the narrative of redemptive Zionism.”  From article by Daniella Peled, Does Yad Vashem Have a Problem with the Bosnian Genocide? Managing Editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Haaretz English Edition, August 16, 2019.” It was our intention

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Armenian Assembly of America and Armenian National Institute Pay Tribute to Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019)

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The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) and the Armenian National Institute (ANI) join in paying tribute to Dr. Vahakn Dadrian, the internationally renowned scholar of the Armenian Genocide who passed away on August 2 at the age of 93. The author of a set of critically important books and articles on the Armenian Genocide, Dr.

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Dr. Vahakn N. Dadrian, 1926-2019

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NAASR joins with the Armenian and scholarly communities in marking the death of genocide scholar Dr. Vahakn Dadrian on August 2 at the age of 93. Dr. Dadrian was known all over the world as a pioneer in genocide and comparative genocide studies and in particular for his voluminous writings on the Armenian Genocide. Vahakn

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Erdogan’s Purge of Turkish Society

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Mr. Erdogan has carried out a purge of Turkish society, punishing his perceived enemies.  He has closed 189 media outlets and jailed some 319 journalists.  Turkey is ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the Reporters without Borders 2019 index of press freedom.  All told, 96,885 people have been arrested, 6,021 academics have been dismissed

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U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Raises Serious Concern about Turkey

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The annual report on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) revealed that among the religious violations cited are the following: In 2018, the state of religious freedom in Turkey remained deeply troubling, raising serious concerns that the country’s trajectory will lead to the further deterioration of conditions in the year ahead.  The

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Stages of Denial of Genocide

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In a lecture at Fresno State University in California, Dr. Taner Akcam, holder of the chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, presented a summary of the stages of genocide as identified by Professor Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.[1] People in power silence or delete history in

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Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem Mourns and Salutes the Great Researcher of the Armenian Genocide, the late VAKAHN DADRIAN

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The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem Salutes the Memory of the Great Researcher of the Armenian Genocide, Professor VAHAKN DADRIAN We celebrate the masterful significance of Vahakn Dadrian’s numerous researches of the Armenian Genocide.  He was a brilliant and resolute authenticator of the validity of the documentation of the genocide at a

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United States Recognition of Armenian Genocide – A Recap

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The United States government has in fact repeatedly recognized the Armenian Genocide.  However, notwithstanding these statements of recognition which include a president’s (Reagan) recognition and several resolutions of the House of Representatives, the overall or standing policy of the United States continues to be an avoidance of recognition. An explicit statement of this avoidance is

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Genocide Scholars Justify Legitimate Analogies to Holocaust

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See Stanley Jason (July 4, 2019). Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Fascism’ Claim Too Extreme? [Published in New York Times International under title: It Depends on How You Define Fascism.]  New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/opinion/fascism-trump-ice.html See Shanes, Joshua (June 28, 2019). Why we must keep looking at politics through the lens of the Holocaust. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-when-holocaust-historians-have-a-responsibility-to-talk-politics-1.7417583 After visiting migrant detention

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Why Sam Totten Risks His Life to Truck Food to People in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

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by Joe Levine Retrieved from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2019/january/driven/ The Nuba Betwixt, Between and Mostly Ignored Sudan, Africa’s third-largest nation, won independence from Great Britain in 1956, but has been the scene of two subsequent civil wars between the primarily Arabic, Islamic north and the black African and Christian south. Though located in

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Memorable! When the World Jewish Congress Called on the U.S. in 1944 to Bomb Auschwitz and the War Department Refused

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Would you believe this quotation from the War Department Reply?: “There has been considerable opinion to the effect that such an effort, even if practicable, might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.” WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS August 9, 1944 Hon. John J. McCloy Under Secretary of War War Department Washington, D.C. My dear Mr.

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The Milestone First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in 1982 DID TAKE PLACE QUITE FULLY AND VERY SUCCESSFULLY

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By Israel W. Charny Once and For All for History: Repeatedly, there are articles that report or suggest that the milestone First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in 1982 never took place at all or, alternatively, it is reported that the conference deteriorated severely and just about evaporated. Thus, the California Courier (June

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Tribute to Samuel Totten: A Genocide Scholar’s Pioneering Activism

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Hightower, Lara Jo (April 14, 2019). Samuel Totten – Words led to action. Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette,   Retrieved from https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/apr/14/samuel-totten-20190414/ Professor Samuel Totten is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. We are proud to reprint the following tribute to him. On the wall outside internationally known genocide scholar Sam Totten’s

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Resolution against Denial of the Armenian Genocide and for its Recognition in the U.S. House of Representatives

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Excerpted from Asbarez, April 9, 2019. New Armenian Genocide Resolution Locks-In Official Recognition, Rejects Turkey’s Denial, Encourages Public Education. Representatives Schiff and Bilirakis joined by over 70 U.S. House Colleagues in Launching Bipartisan Resolution WASHINGTON—On the eve of the Capitol Hill Armenian Genocide Observance, Congressmen Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)  were joined by more

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Harut Sassounian: Azerbaijan’s destruction of Armenian monuments exceeds ISIS crimes

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“A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,480 intricate cross-stones, and 22,700 tombstones,” is the subtitle of an incredible article by Simon Maghakyan and Sarah Pickman, published in the Hyperallergic Magazine last week. The article is titled: “A Regime Conceals its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture.” In April 2011, when the

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Israeli and Polish Students Together Memorialize the Holocaust at Auschwitz

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A report of a remarkable ceremony at Auschwitz in March 2019 tells of Israeli and Polish students standing side by side reading out the names of their relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. As is widely known, the Polish government in recent years has gone to an extreme

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ELIE WIESEL GENOCIDE AND ATROCITIES PREVENTION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW

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On January 14, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, a ground-breaking genocide prevention law, overwhelmingly adopted by the Senate and House, which codifies earlier measures including those implemented by the Obama Administration, and puts in place a set of clear policies and processes to prevent new atrocities. The

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The State of Israel and the U.N. International Day of Commemoration of Victims of Genocide and of its Prevention – December 9

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Includes link to article in Hebrew  by Uriel Levy in Davar Rishon, 25.1.2019, “לא לעמוד מנגד” – Do Not Be a Bystander and a discussion of the new U.S. law, Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act (see also the post on this law on this website). The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem,

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Robert Fisk: Every time we witness genocide we say ‘never again’ – but human nature tells us something different

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by Robert Fisk,  Independent (London) Holocaust expert Israel Charny’s new book makes uncomfortable reading, as he asks us to examine ‘a truth we haven’t faced fully enough’ September 25, 2018 – Confronted on a warm, soft Jerusalem evening by one of Israel’s venerable Holocaust scholars – and a psychologist to boot – a visitor to

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Armenian Dress Rehearsal: Jerusalem Post Letter to the Editor by Israel Charny

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February 4, 2019  The news and anticipation that relationships between Israel and Armenia are developing constructively is good news indeed (“Are Israeli-Armenian Relations Warming Up,” January 9), if only because the Armenian people are our true brothers in suffering major genocides in the 20th century. As the Armenian Genocide is considered by many scholars to

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Review of A DEMOCRATIC MIND and PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR A DEMOCRATIC MIND

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Review of A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017; and Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Treatment of Intimacy, Tragedy, Violence and Evil. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Reviewed by Michael Berenbaum I have known Israel Charny for years and worked with him directly on the Encyclopedia of Genocide. We have fought

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A Deadly Serious Satire on Israel Failing to Recognize Other Genocides

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The Knesset voted down a bill on Wednesday that would have recognized that the Yazidi people, a Kurdish religious minority with a presence in Iraq and Syria and the surrounding region, had been victims of genocide. Fifty-eight Knesset members voted against the bill, which was sponsored by Zionist Union Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova, while 38

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Holocaust Survivors Live Longer than Native-Born Israelis, Research Finds

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Despite having a higher rate of illnesses, Holocaust survivors live an average of seven years longer than their peers of the same age group. Ido Efrati | Jan. 7, 2019 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-holocaust-survivors-live-longer-than-native-born-israelis-1.6822053 Citation from Hebrew edition of newspaper: Efrati, Ido (January 7, 2019). Israeli research: Holocaust survivors live about 7 years longer than native-born Israelis, but

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The Art of Denying Denial: Telling the Truth but Simultaneously Evading It

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Lynne Tracy, Ambassadorial nominee to Armenia, confirms “the mass killings that ended 1.5 million lives,” but will not use the big G-word and say the profanity “Genocide.”  In a forceful editorial, “U.S. Ambassador to Armenian Should Call the Armenian Genocide a Genocide,” Harut Sassounian, publisher of the California Courier, reproduces the amazing dialogue of denial

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