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Debate focuses on genocideIt's kind of the worst hatred to deny genocide," said Nayiri Arzoumanian, a woman of Armenian heritage who has lived in Watertown for eight years. "It's the worst kind of hypocrisy."
The debate began in letters to the editor of the Watertown Tab newspaper and has pitted Watertown Armenians against the ADL's national director, Abraham H. Foxman. Now what was once considered a positive civic effort, declaring Watertown No Place For Hate, finds itself at the center of a debate burdened by divisive international history and politics."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/01/antibias_effort_stirs_anger_in_watertown/"It's been a little more than a year since Watertown became the white-hot center of controversy over formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and tempers continue to rage as town officials pressure the state's largest insurance carrier to join the fight.
In August 2007, Watertown severed ties with the
AntiDefamation League's No Place for Hate program, sponsored by the venerable national organization to fight intolerance on the local level. The action followed protests from members of the Armenian-American community who objected to what they termed the failure of the ADL's national leadership to officially recognize the slaughter of nearly 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish empire between 1915 and 1923 as
a geno cide. Other cities and towns have followed Watertown's lead, and so far,
13 communities statewide have dropped the program.http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/31/insurers_support_of_adl_challenged/