07/03/2026
I love autonomous statements. 🤘🏼
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian has spent years rallying for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Despite this, he has since taken issue with Israel for acknowledging the tragedy while continuing to commit similar atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon.
Here's Tankian's full statement:
"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 Hi**er 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 fu***ng thing that they could have done to Armenians — by using our history, our genocide, our pain to their political advantage.
F**k you."