Unbelievable! Remember Andrew Tarsy, the ADL regional director for New England who was booed out of the Watertown City Council for defending the ADL's Ahmadinejad-esque position that it can neither confirm nor deny an Armenian Genocide took place?

Well, the Boston Globe reported today that at an emergency meeting Tarsy and the rest of his regional board voted to break ranks with the national office of the ADL.

"I strongly disagree with ADL's national position," Tarsy said in an interview with the Globe, declining to explain his change of stance. "It's my strong hope that we'll be able to move forward in a relationship with the Armenian community and the community in general."

Then, twenty minutes ago, the Globe confirmed what a commenter said several hours ago in the comment thread to our petition: Andrew Tarsy has been fired.

Other details:

Tarsy, 38, said he had been struggling with the national position for weeks and finally told Foxman in a phone conversation Thursday that he found the ADL's stance "morally indefensible."

The regional board's executive committee backed Tarsy and, according to a source familiar with the discussion, even went a step further, resolving to support legislation now pending before Congress to acknowledge the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during the World War I era as genocide.

The regional board's willingness to support the Congressional resolution is auspicious news, bringing them into line not just with Jewcy's more modest demand to acknowledge the genocide, but also with the demands of Armenian-American activists at the website No Place for Genocide Denial.

Will the national ADL under Foxman have the courage to admit it's made a terrible mistake, and reverse course? No sign of that yet:

The national ADL leaders also said employees who do not agree with the ADL's position should not differ pubicly, but should resign.

But things are getting very interesting. Call me a Polyanna, but my Spidey Sense tells me that this is going to end with Abraham Foxman's resignation.