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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Armenian genocide

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 4, 2024. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)
June 21, 2024, 3:25 pm
Armenia recognizes Palestinian statehood; Israel summons ambassador for reprimand
Move follows similar ones by Slovenia, Spain, Ireland and Norway, with 145 UN member states now recognizing ‘State of Palestine’; statement affirms support for two-state solution
By ToI Staff
Protesters against the government's judicial overhaul greet participants of the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv, April 23, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2023, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 25: GA protests, Jordanian MP’s gun-smuggling, and Armenian pain
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses a lawmaker-smuggler and Armenian Jerusalemites as Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor looks at GA speeches and a Ramadan event
By ToI Staff
Armenian ceramist Vic Lepejian in his Old City studio, April 23, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2023, 4:27 am
On genocide memorial day, Jerusalem Armenians hold out hopes for Israeli recognition
The Jewish state has prioritized ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan over recognizing the WWI Ottoman massacre, critics say, as Armenian community voices shame over country’s stance
By Lazar Berman
Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem and members of the Armenian Christian community of Haifa during the renaming ceremony of the Armenian Genocide Square in Haifa, Israel on March 20. (Haifa Municipality)
April 4, 2023, 5:29 pm
Turkey’s feathers ruffled by Haifa’s newly unveiled Armenian Genocide Square
The northern city, where many ethnic Armenians live, is the first Israeli municipality to give such recognition to the World War I atrocities
By Canaan Lidor
Winter sunlight fills the Armenian Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
January 16, 2023, 4:25 pm
Jerusalem museum showcasing Armenian history reopens after 5-year renovation
Mardigian Museum in Old City features the rich culture and travails of a community that has maintained a continuous presence in holy city even as rulers have come and gone
By Ilan Ben Zion
A new wing at Jerusalem's Edward and Helen Mardigian Armenian Museum. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 19, 2022, 9:34 am
Visit the Old City monastery that holds Jerusalem’s 1,700-year-old Armenian history
A new museum at the Armenian Monastery offers displays of stunning mosaics and artworks, artifacts and architecture, going back to Armenia’s 4th-century roots in the Holy Land
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Rabbi Gershon Burshteyn, spiritual leader of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center of Armenia, seen outside the center he leads. (Larry Luxner)
October 23, 2022, 2:27 am
Armenia has had few Jews and a poor relationship with Israel. That could be changing
Most of the Jewish community fled in the early 20th century, and Israeli-Azerbaijani relations have been a damper, but ancient ties and renewed diplomacy sow hope for the future
By Larry Luxner
In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 file photo skulls of Ovaherero and Nama people are displayed during a devotion attended by representatives of the tribes from Namibia in Berlin, Germany. Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia that will see it officially recognize as genocide the colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of people and commit to spending a total of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion), largely on development projects. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
May 29, 2021, 9:10 am
Namibia: The first in a dark century of massacres
1948 UN convention says genocide is ‘act committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’; many massacres still not recognized
By AFP
The Daily Briefing
April 27, 2021, 12:41 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 27: Why the Jewish state still denies the Armenian genocide
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By ToI Staff
Israeli activists calling for the government's recognition of the Armenian genocide in front of the Turkish consulate in Jerusalem, April 24, 2012 (courtesy Combat Genocide Association)
April 27, 2021, 2:20 am
Why Israel won’t follow Biden’s lead and recognize Armenian genocide
Turkey is weak diplomatically and economically, and won’t retaliate, but for Israel, strategic interests still trump moral declarations
By Lazar Berman
US soldiers stand guard on the rooftop of the United States embassy, in the background, as members of the Ankara club called Seymen dance in traditional clothes during a protest against a statement made by US President Joe Biden, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
April 27, 2021, 1:47 am
Marking shift, US Jewish groups welcome Biden’s designation of Armenian genocide
In the past some Jewish organizations lobbied to stop US from recognizing the genocide, in part to protect Israel’s strategic ties to Turkey
By Ron Kampeas
Turkish President and leader of Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during his ruling AK Party's group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT), in Ankara, on April 21, 2021. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)
April 26, 2021, 9:24 pm
Erdogan says Biden’s genocide recognition ‘groundless,’ harms ties with US
Turkish president says US counterpart should ‘look in the mirror,’ as Ankara can also bring up ‘what happened to Native Americans, Blacks, and in Vietnam’
By AFP
Some of the 250 Armenians who took up arms against Turkish forced on Musa Dagh in 1915 (public domain)
April 26, 2021, 3:22 am
How Armenia’s 1915 ‘Musa Dagh’ fighters inspired Jews to resist Nazi genocide
Passed around Jewish ghettos across eastern Europe, author Franz Werfel’s fact-based ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’ novel foreshadowed the Holocaust and galvanized resistance
By Matt Lebovic
Religious leaders sing at a ceremony remembering the victims of the Armenian Genocide at the Montebello Armenian Genocide Monument in Montebello, California, Saturday, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
April 25, 2021, 4:38 am
After Biden acknowledges Armenian genocide, Israel stops short of doing the same
Jerusalem recognizes ‘terrible suffering’ of Armenians in early 20th century killings by Ottomans, says nations of world must ‘ensure events like this do not again occur’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this April 15, 2021, file photo, US President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
April 24, 2021, 7:56 pm
Biden recognizes Ottoman Empire atrocities against Armenians as ‘genocide’
Previous US presidents avoided using the term so as to not complicate ties with Turkey; Lapid hails move, says will push for Israeli recognition
By AAMER MADHANI, Matthew Lee and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
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