“When Jews turn inward to concentrate on their own history, and look away from the ordeal of others, they are, with terrible irony, doing exactly what the rest of the world did in allowing the genocide to happen. There were shameful moments, travesties of Jewish humanism, as when Jewish organizations lobbied against a Congressional recognition of the Armenian Holocaust of 1915 on the ground that it diluted the memory of the Jewish Holocaust. Or when the designers of the Holocaust Museum dropped the idea of mentioning the Armenian genocide after lobbying by the Israeli government,” Asbarez daily quotes Howard Zinn, a professor, author and social activist who inspired a generation on the American left.

He was born in 1922 to a working-class family in Brooklyn and died on January 10, 2010.

“Zinn also spoke and wrote about man’s inhumanity to man and how the Holocaust provided an opportunity to apply the lessons of the Holocaust to other such horrors, including the Armenian Genocide. He has signed letters and spoke about the importance of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,” the source reads.

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