American Jewish leadership keeping great company
IHT reports,
As a first-time author, Margaret Ajemian Ahnert hoped that her appearance at a Barnes & Noble store here would draw attention to her new book, “The Knock at the Door,” which deals with the Armenian genocide.
Her reading and question-and-answer session Tuesday drew attention, to be sure, but not the kind she expected.
A man in the audience was arrested after he and several other people disrupted the reading by shouting and passing out leaflets denying that the genocide occurred. Ahnert’s 209-page book tells, among other things, how her mother survived the genocide as a teenager during World War I and eventually came to the United States.
[…] “Someone in the middle of the back of the room stood up and said, ‘That’s not so,’ ” Ahnert said. “Five or six men started to pass out fliers of denial. I thought, oh, my goodness sakes, it’s like Holocaust deniers. I was completely taken aback.”
Mary Occhino, who was in the audience, said some of the people were shouting, “This is a lie, this is a lie, this never happened.”
If the leadership of the North American Jewish community finds this sort of behavior acceptable, then Ernst Zundel may as well go free tomorrow.
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American Jews: if you want to support the idiotic policies of the Israeli government, for reasons of Realpolitik, then move here, and you might have a glimmer of a dillema. Even then not much.
But so long as you’re in the US – just do the right thing and help the Armenians, because they were strangers in Egypt before you even saw the pyramids.
The denial of Armenian genocide is pathetic. Actually, the WW I attack was the SECOND massacre – the first was in 1896. At the time, the events were amply documented in the US press and protested loudly by the US government.
However, Jews are used to people who lie shamelessly about history.
I wonder why
it’s so important for Turkey
To deny?
That’s a tremendous expense, pamphlets and what not.
“If the leadership of the North American Jewish community finds this sort of behavior acceptable, then Ernst Zundel may as well go free tomorrow.”
What the heck are you talking about?