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SUMMARY:Supporting Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Geno
 cide - Dr Eldad Ben Aharon (University of Groningen)
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DESCRIPTION:In a milestone vote in late 2019\, both the US House of Repres
 entatives and Senate overturned more than forty years of precedent to pass
  a bill declaring that the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman
  Turks was\, in fact\, a genocide. Subsequently\, on 24 April 2021\, also 
 US President Joe Biden has officially recognized the Armenian genocide.  T
 hese decisions reinforced the importance of the subject matter and which o
 ffers the opportunity to learn how the 1980s were a formative period for t
 he campaign for international recognition of the Armenian genocide. In his
  talk\, Dr. Ben Aharon will assess how from the 1980s onwards\, the state 
 of Israel found itself in the remarkable position of supporting denial of 
 the Armenian genocide. His talk takes us behind the scenes of the Israeli 
 foreign ministry in the 1980s to examine how these state actors strategica
 lly mobilised the memory of the Armenian genocide into International Relat
 ions where it has remained for the following forty years. Dr. Ben Aharon w
 ill explore how Israeli diplomats took advantage of the growing internatio
 nal prominence of the 1915 Armenian genocide to court Turkey in the late C
 old War period\, leading to the emergence of a unique relationship between
  Israel and Turkey. The importance of this relationship is underlined by t
 he successful role Israel played in supporting Turkey’s attempts to unde
 rmine the campaign by the Armenian diaspora to secure international recogn
 ition of the 1915 genocide. \nSpeakers:\nDr Eldad Ben Aharon (University o
 f Groningen)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (The Board Room\, Kirdar Building\, Middle Ea
 st Centre)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0efdddd5-bdf3-44aa-87c5-00be5cc2bb93/
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