Increasingly anguished and angry posts by many genocide watchers are being published these days about the ominous threat of a major genocide by starvation and embargo of the Armenian population in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabach). The following are two such posts by the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, the first by Israel W. Charny
A group of 50 rabbis from the Rabbinical Center of Europe recently publicized a letter criticizing Armenian leaders for their use of “Holocaust terminology” to describe the current humanitarian crisis faced by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, inflicted upon them by Azerbaijan. “Expressions such as ‘ghetto,’ ‘genocide,’ ‘Holocaust,’ and others are (…) inappropriate to be part of
On April 24, 2023, President Joe Biden issued his annual statement in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. This is his statement in full: Today, we pause to remember the lives lost during the Meds Yeghern—the Armenian genocide— and renew our pledge to never forget. On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian intellectuals and community
The several-months campaign of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide Jerusalem to influence the Israeli government to recognize the Armenian Genocide as of April 24, 2022 failed to achieve its goal, but we can hope nonetheless that it left some positive influences which will yet be helpful in the future. We argued that the
“The Family of Genocides Represents a Universal Sickness of Mankind.” A Conversation with Professor Israel Charny by Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca (June 22, 2021). In GARIWO website, Milan, Italy [GARIWO=Garden of the Righteous Worldwide.] https://en.gariwo.net/interviews/the-family-of-genocides-represents-a-universal-sickness-of-mankind-23905.html Israel Charny is an Israeli psychotherapist and a well-known genocide scholar. He is a specialist in the treatment of Holocaust survivors,
The full length review of the book written by distinguished German genocide scholar, Tessa Hofmann can be found here by clicking this link. A somewhat briefer version of this review was published in the California Courier on May 6, 2021. Book Review: “One is either for human life or not!” A review of Israel Charny’s New
April 24, 2021 Today, April 24, 2021, Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, is now also the historic day on which the United States of America has completed full recognition of the Armenian Genocide after many years of evasion. In the past there have been sparks of recognition from one or another senior level of American governance,
Thank you Ofer Aderet and Haaretz for your meaningful article on May 3, 2021, “How Israel Quashed Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide.” The article definitely succeeds in painting the picture of government – in this case Israel’s Foreign Ministry – lying blatantly, manipulating, invading academic freedom, putting out fake news and more. In this
by Ofer Aderet | Haaretz English Edition | May 2, 2021 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-israel-quashed-efforts-to-acknowledge-the-armenian-genocide-1.9766390?lts=1620128020482 Decades before the U.S. president formally recognized the horrors of 1915, Israel’s Foreign Ministry sought to foil an academic conference on the subject, fearing reprisal from Turkey. ‘We continue to act to reduce and diminish the Armenian issue to the extent of our ability by
by Israel W. Charny When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel’s First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit. This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest
The following article was written by Alex Galitsky and published in the Jerusalem Post on July 21, 2020. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/azerbaijan-is-not-a-true-friend-of-israel-635729 Azerbaijan, a close ally of Turkey and fellow denier of the Armenian Genocide, has actively sought the eradication of the region’s indigenous Armenian inhabitants and traces of their millennia-old civilization. Azerbaijan’s burgeoning relationship with Israel has
The following was submitted as an op-ed in English to the Jerusalem Post by Israel Charny, and similarly in Hebrew to Haaretz with the additional signature of Yair Auron, but in both cases was not published. There is no real basis for judging why op-eds are not accepted by newspapers, but we cannot help wondering
The following story dating back to 2015 was just sent to us by Dr. Rouben Adalian, Director of the Armenian National Institute (ANI) in Washington, DC. The photo of the delegation at the Eternal Flame at the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Musuem in Yerevan is of particular importance to Israelis, so that it is widely
February 4, 2019 The news and anticipation that relationships between Israel and Armenia are developing constructively is good news indeed (“Are Israeli-Armenian Relations Warming Up,” January 9), if only because the Armenian people are our true brothers in suffering major genocides in the 20th century. As the Armenian Genocide is considered by many scholars to
The Knesset voted down a bill on Wednesday that would have recognized that the Yazidi people, a Kurdish religious minority with a presence in Iraq and Syria and the surrounding region, had been victims of genocide. Fifty-eight Knesset members voted against the bill, which was sponsored by Zionist Union Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova, while 38
Professor Yehuda Bauer, doyen of Holocaust studies in the world, who is academic advisor to Yad Vashem said in a radio interview about Poland’s newly announced position of suspending criminal penalties in a law that criminalized blaming Poles for Nazi crimes, that Yad Vashem/Israel’s approval of the correction “borders on betrayal” Bauer said about the
Fisk, Robert (15 February 2018). In the cases of two separate holocausts, Israel and Poland find it difficult to acknowledge the facts of history. London Independent. Reprinted with permission of the author. While Poland has decided to outlaw any claims that their countrymen participated in the extermination of the Jews, Israel continues to ignore the
Published in the California Courier January 28, 2018 – The Polish parliament has approved a law that forbids use of the term “Polish Death Camp,” and forbids any other mention of the participation of the Poles in crimes committed during the Holocaust. Anyone who violates the law, including non-Polish citizens, will be liable to receive a
Marketwired | June 28, 2016 http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/-2138404.htm SOURCE: Zoryan Institute of Canada Inc. An interview was held with Dr. Yair Auron, an Israeli historian and board member of the Zoryan Institute, after an article was released by the Times of Israel, announcing Turkish and Israeli diplomatic rapprochement. The relationship between the former allies deteriorated in 2010
Identifying with Azerbaijan by saying there was mass murder at Khojaly in 1992 desecrates the memory of the Holocaust. By Yair Auron | Apr. 1, 2016 | Haaretz English Edition In an Israeli forest dedicated to Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, 613 trees were planted last month to mark “24 years since the Khojaly genocide” in Azerbaijan.
By Yair Auron Haaretz English Edition Apr 30, 2015 Imagine the president of France inviting the heads of the Jewish community on Holocaust Remembrance Day and intentionally refraining from uttering the word ‘Holocaust.’ In 1995, Prof. Yehuda Bauer – one of the world’s foremost Holocaust historians and who has also dealt extensively with research into
By Yair Auron and Israel Charny Haaretz English Edition April 30, 2015 In putting our desire to protect our ‘ties’ with Turkey and Azerbaijan above our willingness to recognize the Armenian Genocide, we in Israel sacrifice basic principle and integrity. There is no political or economic situation in which we Israelis – or Jews worldwide
A brilliant and fascinating account (in Hebrew) by Yair Auron of the classic novel by Franz Werfel, 40 Days of Musa Dagh, “The book was a source of inspiration and comfort to young Jews in the ghettos in World War II and also to youth in the Yishuv in Palestine.” ספרו של ורפל היה מקור
by Jonathan Lis Haaretz English Edition, May 13, 2015 JERUSALEM– During the July 8 session of the Education Committee of the Knesset de- voted to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, there was a strong support for the immediate recognition of the Armenian Genocide from a broad spectrum of political parties. Although not a member of