No place for denying genocide
By RONALD A. GOODMAN
The Boston Globe
FOR THE LAST several years, I have served as a docent for the Jewish Community Relations Council at the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, and I cannot understand how the Anti-Defamation League's national director can in good conscience state, regarding recognition of the Armenian genocide, that, "We're not party to this, and I don't understand why we need to be made party."
The purpose of a Holocaust memorial is not just to remember the Jews who were slaughtered, but also to make us all serve as witnesses to all past genocides and to work together to prevent more genocides. If Watertown is truly to be No Place for Hate, then perhaps it is time that the ADL take an official position regarding the 1.5 million Armenians who died.