After the predictable and justified backlash, Mr. Foxman sought to explain. He claimed: (1) that the ADL's position was all about sensitivity to the families of the 9/11 victims (let's leave to the side the fact that a mosque in the WTC was … [Read more...]
ADL Update: The Boston Jewish Community Stands Up for Armenians
To recap: Watertown unceremoniously kicked the ADL's No Place for Hate program out of town when the ADL refused to recognize the Armenian genocide as a genocide. The head of the ADL's New England office, Andrew Tarsy, with the support of … [Read more...]
ADL Fires Tarsy–Foxman Must Go
The Globe reported this morning that the national ADL has fired its New England regional director, Andrew Tarsy, and rebuked the New England regional board, which had supported him. The action comes one day after Tarsy and the New England … [Read more...]
Watertown: No Place For the ADL?
ADL's national director, Abraham Foxman, only made things worse when he said, in an interview published in the Los Angeles Times: "The Turks and Armenians need to revisit their past. The Jewish community shouldn?t be the arbiter of that … [Read more...]