!๠�="justify">Stating that they decided to acknowledge the massacre, as ”genocide”, which was committed by the Ottoman Turks by cutting 1.5 million Armenians, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), was founded in USA by the Independent Order of B`nai B`rith (1) on 1913.

      Its official mission was declared as “giving an end to slandering campaigns, which is directed at the Jewish population by resorting, first and foremost, to the mind and conscience but if necessary also to law”. A fierce anti-Semitism campaign were ruling in America at the beginning 1900’s. That horrible Ku Klax Klan for instance, had maintained its position against Jews, as it had done towards Negros. In fact, the foundation of ADL is affiliated with the tragic case known as “Leo Frank Case”. Frank, who was a Jew, was a director at a factory in Georgia, which is reputed for being one of the most fanatical states of America. He was accused for raping a woman called Mary Phagan and sent to jail. However, the man was in fact innocent. The governor of Georgia canceled his sentence. Nevertheless, prior to his release, he was kidnapped and lynched by the people, who organized a incursion to the jail.

      The main activity of the organization those years was to improve the negative, as well as stereotyped images of the Jewish people at the press, and to change the “typecasting of Jews” presented at the theater and cinema. ADL starts with founding offices, which aims at reaching to the smallest settlements. It creates a center of attention to the typecasting of Jews in the publications like brochures and etc. ADL convinces the reputed academicians, politicians, businessmen to condemn the anti-Semitism. One of them was Henry Ford, who made a revolution at the American automotive sector. The 1930’s passed with struggle against sympathizers of Hitler, which got stronger day by day in Europe. The method I used here was to follow the anarchist groups and people in USA closely and bring them into daylight. Currently, ADL follows the same method at the present time.

      The circumstances had changed following the World War II, as Abraham H. Foxman, the Director of ADL stated “the number of caricatures, which aims at insulting, has decreased and the sovereignty of stereotyped racist images on the American culture has come to an end.” Foxman connects these developments, in addition to liberating the American citizens of Jewish origin from the effort of hiding their origin, mainly to the attempts of ADL. Nevertheless, “…fanaticism persists even though it has changed its form…/this time/…now it is directed against the black people, Hispanics, Asian origin Americans, homosexuals and lesbians. Although they are numerically weak in economical sense and political power, ‘the merchants of hate’ can give emotional pain and physical harm, can have a design against ones life and possessions and even damage the social structure of America, which target the principles of equal treatment to human being and mutual respect. ADL, which seems to observe it as a mission, continues to struggle against anti-Zionists by defending Israel’s right for living in coordination with the related organizations since 1948. While founding the Braun Holocaust Institute, it organizes “The Department for Human Rights” on the other hand.

      The Braun Holocaust Institute organizes programs to “the educators, students, civil leaders and families for discovering the blow of genocide that never exhausts and using the lessons they have taken from the “genocide” for developing moral attitude towards prejudice and fanaticism in the present day” in addition for its efforts for reminding the oppression that was applied by genocide and humanity for ever. “The Department for Human Rights” becomes the most active division of ADL, in the course of time. ADL’s principal mission is to inform and to announce the Jew opponents in addition to fanaticism, not only in the USA but in the whole World via its research department. And that mission is an activity, which reaches to “collecting and analyzing the anti- Semitism, terrorist and extremist literature.” It is mentioned that the report on “supervision on the anti-Jewish incidents” (3), which is published once in every year, is considered as “a reliable measurement of the anti-Semitic tendencies.” The researcher journalists, who work here, had reportedly informed, for instance, the neo-Nazi incidents which occurred last year in 33 countries. (I said”reportedly” because whether a Jew or not, I doubt that Americans have a mortal tendency of exaggerating the efforts they give to an extent of fooling themselves. For instance; when a genius security officer in a TV serial that is on the “research of the crime place” like, CSI, intimidates the ones, who harms “the interests of America” with the science and technology, as in “Mission Impossible” while he is giving an image of almost a divine power.) The research Department of ADL has started to follow up the Internet for finding out the formations for “anti-Semitism and extremist right wing, in 1990’s. They had enlightened the issues regarding “the legal matter which, is created by the use of the ‘hate groups’ in the report entitled “Struggle against Extremists in Cyber-space” at 2000. When a year later, the incident of September 11, 2001, pointed out how functional efforts are given at the ADL, it was regarded as an `none-none governmental organizations` that is appropriate to benefit from the funds of the American federal government.

      Another department of ADL’s “Department for Human Rights” is the “Law Department”, which is consisted of lawyers. The ones, who managed to develop the expression of “Hate Crimes”(4), and acquired the “constitutional” term by the American Supreme Court of Constitution(5) in 1993, are the personnel of the Law Department.

      The expression of “hate crimes”, which had become a law in 1985, suggests accepting and also punishing the subjective sentiments / thoughts of the accused as the elements, which intensifies the crime he/ she commit. For instance, in the incident, which laid a ground for the establishment of ADL, it advocates that the ones, who had lynched Frank should be punished, not only for the lynching activity but also for “the hate they have towards Jews”. The motive of the ADL lawyers behind legalizing such an controversial expression is as following: “The Hate Crimes, are, in fact, crimes of giving a ‘message’”. What the assailant, in fact, does by committing the crime is sending the message of “They do not want them” to a group. They differ from this point of view. While the suggestion of ADL is accepted by President Clinton and President Bush, vice President Gore said: “We should send a clear and powerful message to the ones, who will commit hate crimes.” “Hate is wrong, and illegal; if you commit a hate crime we will seize you and punish you at the maximum amount that our laws permit us to.” Let’s read Al Gore’s sentences in another point of view: “Hating from the Israel state is wrong, and illegal; if you hate Israel, etc….” It suggests that the move of the USA Congress like approving hate origin crimes and passing bills on “Hate bills” and the part regarding “resorting to mind and conscience of the mission of “The Union Against Slander” which is to give an end to the slanders campaigns against Jewish population is accomplished with success, and now the time has come for legal sanctions. But, the laws of the USA, which are in force, are not enough for ADL and it also demands punishment for “hate”. The hate crimes, which caused to rise again the primitive and arbitrary practices that violate a fundamental human right like “freedom of thought” and which also was not observed since the inquisitions of “thought crime”, is a sign, which points out that ADL, which is proud of entering its second century, does not have an objection for applying a plan for a new world, which is so arbitrary that could astonish Nazis, who are the eternal enemy of its, in its new era.

      While expanding the hate crimes, which suggest the punishment of prejudices that arises from race, religion, ethnical origin from the 1980’s on, towards the end of 1990’s it reached to an extent that would also include sexual selections. And while this situation strengthened the alliance between ADL and “American National Gay and Lesbian Mission Power” on one hand; on the other, presented a support to ADL from non-governmental organizations like “National Asia Pacific American Law Consortium”, “Supervising Assaults Against Asia Pacific Americans”, which is a protecting umbrella for Asian immigrants.

      What was more important, it supplied an occasion for the Armenian Diaspora, who races with Jews in USA on being victims, for joining the group. As it would be expected, Muslim origin Americans, who are the most mistreated section of the country on prejudice and fanaticism, get their share by being completely excluded.

      CAIR(6), which is known to be the greatest Muslim Human Rights group of America, accuses ADL with preventing American Muslims for getting their rights by exploiting “the rising phobia against Islam” via ‘slandering and excluding tactics’.(7) Another incident that exposes the “ethic” of Abraham Foxman(8), who changed his stance with an extraordinary briskness, is the statement related with the Holy Land Foundation, which is a Muslim organization: “These groups have stained themselves with a number of solidarity expressions that they have used in their dark relations with radical organizations and people, and in addition to the terrorist groups, which are directed towards Israel.” Stating that Foxman’s statement has no basis, CAIR, resembles the stance of ADL’s director to “the ‘communists’ accusations of 50 years ago: “The press release of Abe Foxman is like a invented story of a boulevard newspaper, more than an announcement of a human rights organization. What a shame! This kind of noisy propaganda is mix up with the ones that are told by ADL for the real hate groups.”
      As a result, ADL has no direct issue with Turkey. Considering that one of the two fundamental reasons for ADL’s existence is maintaining the continuation of Israel (and the other is to improve the image of the Jewish nation), as long as the relations of Turkey with Israel would be at an acceptable level, it can be expected that the Jewish American organizations will avoid targeting our country directly or they should be persuaded to avoid targeting our country directly. This is the part that can be dealt with between the governments, which can be carried out with open or secret bargains in the framework of the foreign policy of the country. However, Foreign Ministry would not be enough, as this superficial piece of writing should have warned. It won’t be enough, because there is no central government, whose powers of sanctions are absolute both in our current World and in the USA. Under these circumstances, no matter how perfect they are, our Foreign Minister and even our Prime Minister can be influential by using the official channels only until a point on the condition that the relations between Turkey and Israel will be at an adequate level. The decisive stance of USA will eventually have to reflect the compromise of many large or small lobbies, interests, defense and pressure groups. Given the diversity of units, which constitute the continental shelf of non-governmental organization like ADL, building the defense policy of Turkey on scrutinizing closely, will be inevitable.

      What I mean by “scrutinizing closely” is the following: the political, economical, law, academic units, which constitute the network of ADL, should be scrutinized closely one by one by, by their equivalent units in Turkey. In order to accomplish this, first and foremost the public should be motivated. Whereas, the privation we have suffered on the Armenian slander is obvious. For instance, it would be reasonable if “Bo?aziçi” scrutinizes “Harvard” and “Sabanc?” scrutinizes “Cornell” closely. I assert that the body of lawyers should be in touch with, for instance, ADL Department of Human Rights; the Society of Journalist with Union of American Publishers; American Cinema Actors of MESAM with American Film Institute. And finally, I believe that the General Management of Press and Publication, which we got no news from, should be at least active as American USIS(9), at one time. At this point, I feel like an attempt towards evading can be made by asking a question like: “Is the decision of the American Congress that important?” Well, yes, it is important because the image of a Muslim Turk at present is worse than the one which mobilized ADL at 1913. And if this image would not be improved, the current Armenian Diaspora may turn into, for instance, Pontus Diaspora. If we still don’t make a move, then let’s take a shelter in ADL, like some Armenians do. The lawyers of “the Union Against Slander” can also take us under the protection of the hate crimes laws!

(1) The Independent Order of B`nai B`rith, See. Article of Yesterday.
(2) "Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents".
(3) "Combating Extremism in Cyber-space".
(4) "Hate Crimes".
(5) U.S. Supreme Court.
(6) Council on American-Islamic Relations.
(7) See. The official web of CAIR. 23 August 2007.
(8) See. Article of Yesterday.
(9) United States Information Service.