Abe Foxman Should Stop Saying Words – Incoherent Support For Armenian Genocide Resolution Edition

By
Omri Ceren
– August 28, 2007Posted in: Turkey

Seriously? This is what we’re supposed to be caring about now? Memo to Abe Foxman: not your job. We don’t care where anyone falls on this resolution. Right or wrong, totally symbolic or genuinely meaningful. We don’t care. It might even feel very good in that insipid identity politics standing in solidarity with the oppressed kind of way, but it’s not your job. Doesn’t Mel Gibson have a movie or something coming out? What about evangelical Christians? If they’re trying to help Israel, you better tell them to knock that off. Tool:

Turkey expects Israel to “deliver” American Jewish organizations and ensure that the US Congress does not pass a resolution characterizing as genocide the massacre of Armenians during World War I, Turkish Ambassador to Israel Namik Tan told The Jerusalem Post Sunday… Tan cut short a vacation and rushed back to Israel Thursday to deal with the Anti-Defamation League’s reversal last week of its long-standing position on the issue… Turkey’s concern is that last week’s decision by ADL national director Abe Foxman would open the dikes and enable the passage in Congress of a nonbinding resolution calling Ottoman Turkey’s actions against the Armenians “genocide.” “If you want to touch and hurt the hearts of the people in Turkey, this is the issue,” Tan said. “This is the No. 1 issue. You cannot easily explain to them any change in this.”

This and making lewd comments about pregnant ultra-orthodox schoolteachers. That’s what we’ve got today. Can this month just end already please?

References:
* Israel must get US Jews to back down, Turkey’s envoy tells ‘Post’ [JPost]
* It’s Tuesday, So the ADL is Concerned About Evangelical Christians [MR]

Previously:
* UC Irvine Gives Interview to Anti-Semitic Hate Group, Wonders Why Everyone Thinks There’s Anti-Semitism on Their Campus
* ADL Thinks Real Hard, Identifies Religious Threat to American Jews – Christians!
* Evangelical Support for Israel – It’s Not Because They Hate Jews

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