Joey:

Perhaps the statement isn't as straightforward as you'd like. I initially wondered why they didn't just say "genocide", as well.

But it's also obvious that you have a hard on for Foxman and the ADL.

Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America, ishappy with the statement.

And longtime ADL critic and Lobby paper defender Alan Wolfe is, as well, saying about the congressional resolution...

"such a resolution is pure symbolism, and the last we thing we need is more symbolic politics. More likely, passage of the resolution would infringe on free speech, as hate crime legislation often does, and encourage defensive nationalism in Turkey when we in the United States should be supporting democratic movements in that country, even if those movements are religious."

(I really don't have an opinion on it one way or another).

Be happy you're part of a community that realized the error in jdugment and protested accordingly, leading to a prominent spokeperson's reversal of language.

Few other minority activist organizations in this country are held to, and deliver on, the standard being applied here.

I'd love to see academics and "progressives" voice the outrage against Arab American organizations for not actively condemning and pressuring Arab countries about the current genocide in Darfur that was - rightly - voiced against the ADL.