Katie Vanadzin
Abraham Foxman’s weekend address at the Suffolk Law School commencement
was the subject of considerable controversy for the month leading up to
his speech on Saturday. Campaigns were initiated by the National
Lawyer’s Guild at Suffolk University as well as by the Armenian Museum
of America to urge the University to reconsider its choice of speaker,
citing Foxman’s controversial views on the Armenian genocide as well as
on the rights of Muslims in America. Foxman, who is outgoing director of
the Anti-Defamation League, has come under fire for his organization’s
lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government against official
recognition of the Armenian genocide on the part of the U.S., as well as
the ADL’s series of vague, legalistic statements that attempt to
sidestep classifying the Armenian genocide as such.
