On Zionism and the Armenian Genocide

[Guest]

PRESS RELEASE

AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History

University of Southern California, Los Angeles November 1, 2000

 

Noted Israeli Scholar Yair Auron to Speak at UCLA on Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, November 17, and Sardarabad Bookstore on November 18

 

UCLA--Educator and historian Dr. Yair Auron will lecture on the campus

of UCLA on Friday, November 17, on "Attitudes of the Jewish 'Yishuv,'

the Zionist Movement, and the State of Israel Towards the Armenian

Genocide." The event will take place at 12 noon in the Political

Science conference room, 4269 Bunche Hall (4th floor) and is

co-sponsored by the AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History and the

Centers for European and Russian Studies, Modern and Contemporary

Studies, and Jewish Studies, and the Department of History. "I am

delighted to welcome back Dr. Auron to the UCLA Campus,: stated AEF

Chair Holder Richard Hovannisian. "He has not only given us new

insights into the Jewish and Israeli responses to the Armenian

Genocide, but he has also been a champion of placing the Armenian

experience within the framework of the Israeli educational

curriculum."

 

The purpose of this presentation is to give an overview and to try to

analyze the attitude of the "Yishuv" (Jewish Community in Palestine,

before the constitution of Israel in 1948), the Zionist Movement, and

the State of Israel towards the Armenian Genocide, which was committed

before and during World War I.

 

The presentation will discuss issues such as the attitude of Theodor

Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization, to the Armenian

tragedy; Palestine during World War I; the Nili organization and its

attitude towards the Armenians; the idea of a Jewish-Arab-Armenian

Alliance; the impact of Franz Werfel's Forty Days of Musa Dagh as a

symbol and a model for Jewish youth in Palestine and in the ghettoes

of Europe during the Holocaust. Another issue that will be dealt with

concerns the period after the creation of the State of Israel. Auron

will conclude by looking at the victims of genocide from both a unique

and a universal perspective.

 

Yair Auron is senior lecturer at the Open University of Israel and the

Kibbutzim College of Education. He is the author, in Hebrew, of

Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sensitivity to World Suffering: Genocide in

the Twentieth Century; We Are All German Jews; and Jewish Radicals in

France during the Sixties and Seventies (published in French as well).

 

Currently he is preparing two academic textbooks for the Open

University of Israel. The first is a comprehensive textbook dealing

with the historical, political and sociological phenomenon of

genocide; the second is an in-depth study of Holocaust and genocide

education in Israel and the world. He continues to study and to

promote change in the official Israeli attitude towards the Armenian

Genocide.

 

Recently, Transaction Publishers released Dr. Auron's latest book, The

Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide. Copies

will be available for signing at the end of the lecture.

 

On Saturday, November 18. Dr. Auron will appear at Sardarabad

Bookstore, 1111 South Glendale Avenue in Glendale, California at 3:00

p.m. to discuss his work and do a book signing. The public is invited

is invited to both events. There is no admission fee

 

Dr. Auron's U.S. tour is coordinated by the Zoryan Institute for

Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation.

 

For additional information on the events in Los Angeles, e-mail

Professor Hovannisian at Hovannis@history.ucla.edu, or the Zoryan

Institute in Canada, 416-512-8600, Ext. 113 or e-mail: zoryan@idirect.ca

 

P.S. The same event will be held in New Yourk on November 19.

[Guest]

When considered in combination with your post from yesterday, it could be an interesting event. Anyone going to go and bring up Israel's possible involvement in the defeat of HR 596???

 

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[Guest]

the zionists would do everything to deny the Armenian Genocide.

 

Turkey is friend of Israel and Armenia is in another camp.

Secondly Zionism believes in the superiority of the Semite race (the jewish branch) and would at least don't care (to say very objective) about the Armenians of Aryan decent. It seems that the Zionist scholars are trying to deny the Armenian genocide by all means. Bernard Lewis the the zionist scholar famous of insulting the Palestinin American Scholar Eduad Said, has clearly denied the organized genocide of the Armenians by the young Turk regime. Bernard Lewis book's title is simply "The Middle East".

 

In Holland the zionist lobby is very strong and they control the Media and to influence also the Politics. In Holland it was forbidden to memorate the Armenian Genocide at 24 april!

Food for thaughts.

 

The best strategy for the Armenians, as well as Iranians and other states of our region is not trust the Turkish Israeli alliance, and try to choose their strategies more logically.