Topic: Genocide denial

By Etgar Lefkovits TEL AVIV (JSN.org) — A critical Israeli parliamentary vote on recognizing the violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide has[...]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump in his statement on April 24 refused to use the phrase Armenian Genocide, to no one’s surprise. His statement said, in part, “Today, we pay[...]

By Peter Balakian Robert Jay Lifton died on September 3 at the age of 99. He was a towering figure in the field of psychohistory (psychology and history) that he[...]

BERKELEY, Calif. — On Thursday, April 24, University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center was set to screen “My Sweet Land,” a documentary film that follows an 11-year-old Armenian boy[...]

BERLIN — Denial has been identified as the last stage of every genocide. Why, despite the testimony provided by ample documentation, are these crimes against humanity so stubbornly disputed? What[...]

Washington – The Armenian Assembly of America on October 13 announced the launch of an online campaign to urge Facebook to follow its important precedent in the removal of Holocaust denial[...]

A major controversy erupted in Turkey last week after a pro-Erdogan Turkish Islamist magazine Gercek Hayat claimed that the controversial Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen had written a letter[...]

By David Boyajian Approximately one hundred Turks, a half dozen Armenian Americans, and a dozen members of the Armenian Youth Federation’s (AYF) Greater Boston Chapter attended the opening of a[...]

By Ismail Akbulut Special to the Mirror-Spectator In a tweet fired off earlier this month, Turkish sociologist Yahya Mustafa Keskin from Abant Izzet Baysal University took aim at journalist Hayko[...]

The following is the speech of Prof. Taner Akçam, on April 21, at the State House in Connecticut. Every year, I ask myself again and again the same question: Why[...]