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 continued to deny the Armenian genocide altogether. His hypocrisy in this matter was made doubly grotesque by his continued ethnic cleansing of Kurds and his bluster about cutting trade ties with Israel over Palestine — while still allowing Azerbaijan to export oil to Israel through Ankara.

The mainstream media typically treats these conflicts — between Israel and Palestine, Azerbaijan and Armenians, Turkey and Kurds — as isolated. But Armenian Organized Resistance (ARMOR) Coalition, a grassroots activist group based in New York City, sees them as deeply interconnected.