Alan Wolfe, at The New Republic's Open University, is glad the Anti-Defamation League has "seen the light" and reversed course on whether to call the Turkish massacre of Armenians "genocide." He also hopes the ADL rehires its former New England regional director, Andrew Tarsy, whom it fired for bucking the organization's longtime stand that the killings should not be designated "genocide." 

Mark Kleiman, over at the Reality-Based Community, is similarly disgusted by the firing and ADL's (former?) position. Pulling no punches, he writes:

"If Democrats take back the federal government next year, there's going to have to be a reckoning with outfits such as ADL and AIPAC. I can't tell whether they take their lead from right-wing Israeli politicians because of their Republican affiliations or pal around with Republicans because they're in bed with Likud. But it has to stop. Either they need new leadership or we need new organizations."

(I updated this post at around 4 p.m. after Professor Wolfe sent me a note ever so diplomatically pointing out that I'd mischaracterized his take on a Congressional resolution. I have deleted the sentence referring to that. Thanks, Professor Wolfe, for alerting me to the error, and sorry! --A.K.)