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Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University, is the author of Black Dog of Fate (PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir) andThe Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and American’s Response winner of the Raphael Lemkin Prize; and 7 books of poems including the forthcomingOzone Journal and the forthcomingVise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture.

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    Jews and the Armenian Genocide

    The 100th anniversary is the time for Israel to rethink the moral concession it has made by abetting Turkish denial

    byPeter Balakian
  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Shimon Peres, and the Armenian Genocide.(Collage: Tablet Magazine; Erdogan photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images; Peres photo: Amos BenGershom/GPO via Getty Images; background photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Shimon Peres, and the Armenian Genocide.(Collage: Tablet Magazine; Erdogan photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images; Peres photo: Amos BenGershom/GPO via Getty Images; background photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    State of Denial

    It’s time for Israel to rethink its rejection of the Armenian Genocide

    byPeter Balakian
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