“Using our history, our genocide, our pain to their political advantage”: System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian lambasts Israel for recognising Armenian genocide amidst Palestinian conflict

Serj Tankian onstage with System Of A Down in 2017.

System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian has criticised Israel for recognising the Armenian genocide of 1915 and ’16 as the country continues its military actions in the West Bank and Gaza, which have been described as genocide by a United Nations commission.

In a video statement released via the social media account Vocal Politics, the Armenian-American vocalist says “fuck you” to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, after they acknowledged the Ottoman Empire’s mass killing and deportations of Armenian Christians during World War I.