According to the blog "No Place for Denial," Mayor Moak officially sent a letter to the Anti-Defamation League announcing the pull out.
From the No Place for Denial Blog:
In a February 1 letter to the New England ADL, Newburyport mayor John Moak stated that “in wake of … the [ADL’s] failure to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide between 1915 and 1923 as anything other than “tantamount to genocide,” … the Commission has decided to end its relationship with the No Place for Hate program.
Newburyport joins Watertown, Belmont, Newton, Needham, Arlington, Medford, Lexington, Bedford, Westwood and Northampton in ending ties with the ADL’s No Place for Hate program due to the ADL’s failure to unambiguously acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and continued active opposition to Congressional legislation affirming the Armenian Genocide.
It looks like the Daily News last reported on this in November:
NEWBURYPORT - The Committee for Diversity and Tolerance voted 4-1 yesterday, with one abstention, to drop the No Place for Hate program and its sponsor, the Anti-Defamation League, in response to the ADL's refusal at its national meeting last week to amend its policy regarding the Armenian genocide.
Members said they had appreciated No Place For Hate, but the ADL's lack of action was too much. With approval from the mayor, the city would become the eighth in Massachusetts to break ties with the group.
Apparently, the mayor approved of the move since it's being reported that he sent a letter.
I was going to provide more of the Daily News article, but it suggested I needed a Plus Edition, which supposedly no longer exists.
Just a few bugs to work out on the Web site, I suppose.
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ADL Statement on the Armenian Genocide
"We have never negated but have always described the painful events of 1915-1918 perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians as massacres and atrocities. On reflection, we have come to share the view of Henry Morgenthau, Sr. that the consequences of those actions were indeed tantamount to genocide. If the word genocide had existed then, they would have called it genocide."
The ADL acknowledges that the Armenian Genocide happened, but they don't believe that a congressional resolution would be productive.
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