On April 18, as the death toll of Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocide surged to nearly thirty-four thousand, Columbia students, peacefully protesting the use of their grossly inflated tuition to fund the bombing of children and the devastation of civilian infrastructure, faced mass arrests and false accusations of antisemitism. Just a few days later, on April 24, Armenian Remembrance Day, US president Joe Biden commemorated the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide yet remained silent about the plight of Armenian refugees struggling to rebuild their lives after being displaced from their homes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by Azerbaijan.
For his part, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of NATO-allied Turkey…