Fallout from ADL's position elicits international response.

[Ian David]

Turkey calls on Israel to keep Jewish organizations in line
By Raphael Kohan - Thursday August 30 2007

Now that the Anti-Defamation League has reinstated Andrew H. Tarsy to its New England Region, ADL leaders say they want to move past the issues that have divided them in recent weeks, even as the organization is faced with international fallout.

“The ADL has confronted a very important issue and done a significant thing for acknowledging the Armenian genocide,” said Tarsy in a meeting on Monday with the Advocate and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL’s national director. “But now we go forward.”

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“The issue for the ADL is not whether or not there was genocide against the Armenians – there clearly was,” Grand Rabbi Y. A. Korff said in a statement. “Rather the real issue for the ADL is, after considering all the complexities, competing interests, and the consequences, what their official policy should be and how, or by whom, that decision should be made.”

With Foxman expressing one view and local Jewish groups expressing another, the national ADL head said the public attacks against him and ADL proved most upsetting to him.

More:
http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/news/?content_id=3596


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