Armenian genocide

Armenian lobby escalates criticism of Israel, cites 'Jewish traditions'

Congressional bill to lift limits on US security aid to Azerbaijan draws sharp ANCA pushback; New York’s new mayor faces backlash over antisemitism definition.

A man holds a placard as members of the Armenian diaspora in the U.S. rally to mark the anniversary of the 1915 genocide, in Los Angeles, California, US April 24, 2021.
People gather at a memorial site to commemorate the dead in the 1915 mass killing of Armenians, in Yerevan, 2006

It’s time for Israel to recognize the Armenian genocide - opinion

A document in a Thessaloniki museum shows the papers used to travel from the city, then known as Salonica, to British Mandate Palestine  before World War II.

Thessaloniki’s Armenian minority and Jewish past are bound by a shared history of genocide

Members of the Armenian community attend a memorial march marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces in Jerusalem's Old City April 23, 2015.

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Israel’s failure to recognize the Armenian Genocide is indefensible

Many of Israel’s leaders have publicly recognized the Armenian Genocide at various points throughout Israeli history. But as a nation, the Jewish state has refused to do this.

An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child in a field “within sight of help and safety at Aleppo.”

Armenian president to 'Post': Failure to recognize genocide will backfire

Israel will not win the battle against antisemitism until it recognizes the Armenian Genocide, President Armen Sarkissian told The Jerusalem Post.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN holds a working meeting with Sarkissian.

Greek PM chides Turkey for genocide against Christians

The Prime Minister blasted Ankara for its current foreign policy that, he said, is ignoring international law on the high seas.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Why was a monument erected for a Jew in Azerbaijan?

Bilateral relations at the political level are developing today. However, if an Azerbaijani Embassy in Israel had been opened, relations would have developed in a completely different way.

THE FLAME Towers in Baku are a symbol of the new and independent Azerbaijan.

No Holds Barred: Lindsey Graham blocks recognition of Armenian Genocide

Lindsey reassured American Jewry that we were not alone and that we had friends who stood with us against Iran’s promise to destroy Israel.

United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks at the 7th Annual Jerusalem Post Conference on April 29th, 2018.

Samantha Power’s breathtaking hypocrisy on the Armenian genocide

Since Turkey is a NATO ally, fellow members have been especially reluctant to risk angering the Turks.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power

Recognize the Armenian genocide

In a prelude to the Holocaust and the crimes of ISIS, the slaughter of Armenians was an opening to a hundred years of similar mass murder events.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on the phone at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, October 9, 2019

U.S. House recognizes Armenian genocide, backs Turkey sanctions

The Democratic-controlled House voted 405-11 in favor of the resolution, which asserts that it is U.S. policy to commemorate as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Armenia’s Jewish problem

But facts on the ground occasionally dictate otherwise – particularly in Armenia, one of the world’s oldest Christian nations.

‘DIFFERENT FROM our neighbors’: Armenia today.

MKs call on Israel to recognize Armenian Genocide

“The time has come to stop giving in to Turkish pressure," Yair Lapid said.

Yair Lapid