An Israeli scholar has called on the Israeli government to recognize the Armenian Genocide and not to yield to Turkish pressure. His new book, titled “Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus the Politicization of History,” was published this year.
Israel Charny, in his new book, has spoken about the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Israeli government under Turkish pressure and has called on the Israeli government to recognize that fact, The Jerusalem Post reports.
“The argument in favor of denying the Armenian Genocide has been used to maintain Israel’s relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan. Those who oppose the denial of the genocide declare that it contradicts Israel’s spirit and its security,” the scholar said.
The word “genocide” was first used at a conference held in 1982, attended by Elie Wiesel and psychiatrist Shamai Davidson. At the conference, titled “The First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide,” Armenians were for the first time given the opportunity to convey their experience of the genocide to an international audience.
But among the 300 presentations on the Holocaust and other genocides, the Armenian one was mentioned only six times, the book’s author noted.
