Mass. Agency Breaks With Anti-Defamation League Program
April 11, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
Citing the Anti-Defamation League’s failure to acknowledge the World War I-era Armenian genocide, the Massachusetts Municipal Association broke its ties with the league’s No Place for Hate program, reports The Boston Globe.
The association, a nonprofit organization that advocates for Massachusetts cities and towns, will no longer sponsor the league’s antibigotry program. The association took its stance after the Anti-Defamation League did not support legislation in Washington last year recognizing the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1918 as genocide, the paper reports.
“We think this is an issue on which there can be no equivocation,” Jonathan Hecht, a member of the Watertown city council and trustee of the municipal association, tells The Globe. “No Place For Hate is not credible as long as the ADL is unable to unequivocally recognize the genocide.”
The anti-defamation league said it did not think more towns would pull out of the program following the Watertown decision.
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