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Features | 28.09.07 | 16:00

Resolution Update: Support of ADL significant; 106 currently has 227 commitments to vote

By Ruzanna Amiraghyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Amidst growing pressure to prevent the passage of a pending resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 by the United States Congress, the traditionally strong efforts of some Jewish community representatives and organizations to support the preventive attempts seem to shatter.

The most vivid examples are the recent developments in New England, which resulted in one of the most influential Jewish advocacy organizations the Anti-Defamation League’s cautious recognition of the historical fact.

“We have never negated but have always described the painful events of 1915-1918 perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians as massacres and atrocities.

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