{"id":109328,"date":"2014-12-16T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T10:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=109328"},"modified":"2022-11-27T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:01:56","slug":"azeri-israeli-propagandist-throws-stones-at-armenia-from-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2014\/12\/16\/azeri-israeli-propagandist-throws-stones-at-armenia-from-glass-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Azeri-Israeli Propagandist Throws Stones at Armenia from Glass House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The JNS.org website (Jewish and Israel news) posted a venomous, anti-Armenian article by Arye Gut with a bombastic headline: \u201cAnti-Semitism in Armenia: A Clear and Present Danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

JNS.org identifies the author as \u201can Azerbaijani Israeli\u201d who is \u201ca board member of the Israeli-Azerbaijani International Organization, official coordinator of the \u2018Justice for Khojaly!\u2019 international campaign in Israel, and an expert in international relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dozens of Azeri and Turkic media outlets rushed to reprint this Armenophobic propaganda, stressing that it originated from a \u2018popular\u2019 Jewish news source. The article may have been written in Baku, planted in Israeli and Jewish publications, and then reprinted in Azerbaijan to lead readers into thinking that it comes from an objective third party source.<\/p>\n

Gut claims that Armenia\u2019s Jewish minority \u201cshrunk dramatically\u201d after the end of \u201ca more tolerant\u201d Soviet rule! He admits, as an afterthought, that \u201cArmenia\u2019s ongoing economic collapse\u201d is equally responsible for the dwindling number of Jews \u201cfrom more than 5,000 to just a few hundred.\u201d Gut fails to mention, however, that during the same period over one million Armenians also left their homeland due to abysmal economic conditions.<\/p>\n

The Azeri-Israeli author further accuses Armenians of \u201ccultural violence,\u201d referring to the existence of anti-Semitic books and TV programs. Yet he grudgingly acknowledges that \u201csuch unfortunate incidents\u201d occur \u201cin many countries.\u201d If that is the case, why is he singling out Armenia? Could it be that he has ulterior motives? As \u201cofficial coordinator of the \u2018Justice for Khojaly!\u2019 international campaign in Israel,\u201d is Gut a paid agent or doing all this hard work — writing pro-Azerbaijan\/anti-Armenia articles — out of the goodness of his heart?<\/p>\n

Gut goes on to defame Armenians, claiming that \u201caround 1.3 million out of 2.2 million adults in Armenia expressed anti-Semitic attitudes.\u201d He misleads readers into thinking that he has personally interviewed 1.3 million Armenians all of whom supposedly made anti-Jewish statements! What Gut is referring to is Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) flawed global survey which reported that 58% of a random sample of 500 Armenians, interviewed mostly by telephone, expressed anti-Semitic views. As Gut\u2019s figure of 1.3 million Armenians comes from ADL\u2019s survey, he should have also mentioned the results of the same survey for his beloved Azerbaijan — one of the worst violators of human rights in the world — which shows that 2.4 million Azeris harbored anti-Semitic sentiments, almost double the number of Armenians!<\/p>\n

Since Gut is concealing Azerbaijan’s figures, let\u2019s expose them to see how they compare with those of Armenia, based on the results of ADL’s 11-question survey:<\/p>\n

1) 3.2 million Azeris and 1.5 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews are more loyal to Israel than to the country they live in.\u201d
\n2) 3.4 million Azeris and 1.6 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews have too much power in the business world.\u201d
\n3) 3.2 million Azeris and 1.5 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews have too much power in international financial markets.\u201d
\n4) 2 million Azeris and 1 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.\u201d
\n5) 3.4 million Azeris and 1.3 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews don\u2019t care what happens to anyone but their own kind.\u201d
\n6) 2.5 million Azeris and 1.1 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews have too much control over global affairs.\u201d
\n7) 2.5 million Azeris and 1.1 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews have too much control over the United States government.\u201d
\n8) 2.4 million Azeris and 1.2 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews think they are better than other people.\u201d
\n9) 2.3 million Azeris and 0.9 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true\u201d: \u201cJews have too much control over the global media.\u201d
\n10) 2 million Azeris and 0.8 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true”: \u201cJews are responsible for most of the world\u2019s wars.\u201d
\n11) 2.4 million Azeris and 1.4 million Armenians replied \u201cprobably true”: \u201cPeople hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.\u201d<\/p>\n

ADL’s Global Survey results are even more devastating for Turkey — 34 million Turks out of an adult population of 49 million are found to be anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n

Gut concludes his anti-Armenian diatribe by depicting the so-called \u201cKhojaly massacre\u201d as \u201cone of the worst tragedies of the 20th century,\u201d thereby raising the alleged killing of \u201c613 people\u201d in Khojaly during the Karabagh war to the level of 6 million victims of the Jewish Holocaust and 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide!<\/p>\n

Gut must be unaware of Benjamin Franklin\u2019s famous words: \u201cDon\u2019t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The JNS.org website (Jewish and Israel news) posted a venomous, anti-Armenian article by Arye Gut with a bombastic headline: \u201cAnti-Semitism in Armenia: A Clear and Present Danger.\u201d JNS.org identifies the author as \u201can Azerbaijani Israeli\u201d who is \u201ca board member of the Israeli-Azerbaijani International Organization, official coordinator of the \u2018Justice for Khojaly!\u2019 international campaign in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4101,"featured_media":774085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-harut-sassounian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}