{"id":16773,"date":"2010-02-08T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2014-01-05T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:56:05","slug":"armenian-and-jewish-community-leaders-of-america-to-launch-grassroots-petition-for-u-s-reaffirmation-of-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/02\/08\/armenian-and-jewish-community-leaders-of-america-to-launch-grassroots-petition-for-u-s-reaffirmation-of-the-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMENIAN AND JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA TO LAUNCH GRASSROOTS PETITION FOR U.S. REAFFIRMATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p>Noyan Tapan<br \/>\nFeb 3, 2010<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON, FEBRUARY  3,\u00a0NOYAN TAPAN\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0ARMENIANS\u00a0TODAY. The Boston based<br \/>\ncoalition  of Armenian and Jewish Community Leaders launched grassroots<br \/>\npetition urging  all people to sign a letter to\u00a0President Obama\u00a0and<br \/>\nCongress that calls for swift  passage of H. Res. 252, reported the<br \/>\nArmenian Assembly of America.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian  American Action Committee of\u00a0Massachusetts&lt; SPAN  class=ecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;\u00a0(ARAMAC-MA),<br \/>\nArmenian National  Committee\u00a0of  Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Jewish<br \/>\ncommunity and Assembly anti-genocide  coalition partner Investor&#8217;s<br \/>\nAgainst Genocide were instrumental in launching  the petition and<br \/>\nresource page.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Purutyan, ARAMAC-MA State Chair  and coalition member stated that<br \/>\nwas an exciting collaboration of two  communities, who have experienced<br \/>\nthe\u00a0ultimate crime against humanity, to stop future  genocides wherever<br \/>\nthey may occur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As two communities, Jewish and  Armenian, we ask our fellow citizens<br \/>\nto let the President and Congress know  that the recognition of the<br \/>\nArmenian Genocide is critically important, not  only because it is<br \/>\nmorally the right thin g to do, but also it is necessary  to prevent<br \/>\nsuch crimes from happening  again.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span><span>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>From: papazian@umich.edu<br \/>\nDate: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:20:13  -0500<br \/>\nSubject: Re: [TheArmenianGroup] ARMENIAN AND JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS  OF AMERICA TO LAUNCH GRASSROOTS PETITION FOR U.S. REAFFIRMATION OF THE ARMENIAN  GENOCIDE<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ecxygrp-mlmsg\">\n<div id=\"ecxygrp-msg\">\n<div id=\"ecxygrp-text\"><span><span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">They are not Jewish community leaders of  China.<\/p>\n<p>dp<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nJerry Tutunjian wrote: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"mid:COL114-W134F082D0B85D0D0B37CFBFE540@phx.gbl\"><p><span><span>The headline is  misleading. It says that Jewish\u00a0community\u00a0leaders of America are backing  the petition, but in fact it&#8217;s just the\u00a0Massachusetts branch. Mainstream  American-Jewish organizations continue to lobby on behalf of Turkey. &#8220;Meg  dzaghigov karoun cheekar.&#8221;<br \/>\nJirair<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noyan Tapan Feb 3, 2010 BOSTON, FEBRUARY 3,\u00a0NOYAN TAPAN\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0ARMENIANS\u00a0TODAY. The Boston based coalition of Armenian and Jewish Community Leaders launched grassroots petition urging all people to sign a letter to\u00a0President Obama\u00a0and Congress that calls for swift passage of H. Res. 252, reported the Armenian Assembly of America. The Armenian American Action Committee of\u00a0Massachusetts&lt; SPAN class=ecxecxApple-converted-space&gt;\u00a0(ARAMAC-MA), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":26515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}