Kim Kardashian Criticizes Wall Street Journal For Publishing Advert Denying Armenian Genocide

Addressing the response from the Journal, Kardashian West said in her New York Times ad that it wasn’t “provocative” to run ads denying the Armenian genocide, but was “totally morally irresponsible and, most of all, it’s unsafe”.

The Turkic Platform, the group that paid for the Journal ad, rejects the idea that the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 – which was carried out by the Ottoman government – constitutes “genocide“, The New York Daily News reported.

Kardashian’s ad, titled “Genocide denial can not be allowed”, ran in ‘s New York Times. We’ve learned to brush it off. Lies make good headlines, good headlines make great covers, great covers sell magazines.

This time, the thing in her crosshairs is the Wall Street Journal.

It’s also the one political issue on which Kim K is very, very outspoken – unsurprising given that the Kardashian clan are of Armenian descent through father Robert Kardashian. The ad includes much of the language she used in her blog post at the time, blasting the competitor newspaper while educating readers on the tragedies her ancestors lived through.

Back in April, the Wall Street Journal printed a controversial ad that essentially denied the 1915 Armenian Genocide. “Why is it every time we take one step forward, we take two steps back?” Though historians and scholars have deemed it a genocide – “a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people” – Turkey still refuses to acknowledge the actions of their government over 100 years ago.

“My family and I are no strangers to BS in the press”, Kim’s NYT ad read.

“There aren’t that many Armenians in this business”, Kardashian-West told Time past year.

“Advocating the denial of a genocide by the country responsible for it – that’s not publishing a “provocative viewpoint”, that’s spreading lies”, she added.

“We do. We must We must talk about it until it is recognised by our government because when we deny our past, we endanger our future”.

In April, WSJ responded to criticism of the ad by stating that the paper accepts “a wide range of advertisements, including those with provocative viewpoints”.