Israel have officially made moves to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915. However, System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian, who has long fought to bring attention to the tragedy, has labeled the government hypocritical for making such a declaration as they carry out their own genocide in Gaza.
Tankian said the following:
“For many years, Israel’s government used AIPAC to lobby the US Congress to not recognize the Armenian genocide, to prevent Congress from recognizing the Armenian genocide, due to their relationship with Turkey, their intelligence sharing with Turkey, et cetera.
Today, the Netanyahu cabinet decided to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 — a genocide that led Hitler thinking that he could do what he could do to the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.
The fact that this government is already committing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon decided to recognize the genocide of my grandparents is the worst fucking thing that they could have done to Armenians — by using our history, our genocide, our pain to their political advantage.
Fuck you.”
[via Rock Feed]
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