An Israeli cabinet minister laid a wreath at an Armenian genocide memorial as he visited the country earlier this week, stating that the genocide was “widely recognised in Israel”.
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein spoke on the experience of the Holocaust telling journalists that,
“I think that in Israel, in view of … our common history and some similar elements and moments, you will hardly find people who will deny the genocide, who will say, like we unfortunately hear, that all this is fabrications and lies.”
“So I think that unfortunately — I stress, unfortunately — in this area our peoples have quite a lot in common, quite a lot for mutual understanding”.
Visiting the genocide museum in the city of Yerevan, Edelstein signed the visitor’s book writing,
“Nobody in Israel denies the fact of Armenian Genocide.”
His visit comes as reports emerged of a newly issued French secondary-school textbook including details of the 1915 mass killings of ethnic Armenians as a genocide.
Earlier this year, a bill to outlaw denial of the killings as genocide in France was deemed unconstitutional by the country’s Constitutional Council.
See our earlier post: Sarkozy reaffirms pledge towards genocide bill (08 March 2012)
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