After years of resistance, the U.S. ‘recognizes’ Armenian genocide

The Holocaust of the European Jews committed by the Nazis was the event that gave the word 'genocide' global currency, and many Israelis feel that putting the Armenian massacres of 1915 into the same category devalues the currency.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, pictured March 11, signing the American Rescue Plan into law. The Biden administration has officially recognized the Armenian genocide.Photograph courtesy of Twitter via Joe Biden's profile

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 26, 2021

Following in the path of 31 other countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Russia, and Brazil, the United States has at last “recognized” the Armenian genocide. Not that the United States ever denied it, but it officially avoided the word “genocide�...

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