A resolution for Israel to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide will be submited at the upcoming government meeting by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
Sa’ar, announcing the resolution in a Thursday post to X/Twitter, said that the proposed resolution will afterward be brought before the Knesset for a vote.
“Recognizing the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in the final years of the Ottoman Empire is both a moral and historical duty,” Sa’ar affirmed. “We must also firmly condemn any denial, minimization, or distortion of the historical truth.”
“Despite the extensive and unambiguous historical documentation, the Armenian Genocide remains to this day the subject of an institutionalized campaign of denial and minimization, including a manipulative rewriting of history books, mainly by Turkey,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
As of 2026, 32 UN member states, including the United States, Canada, Russia, and Germany, have formally recognized the genocide.
I will bring before the Israeli government at its next meeting a proposed resolution for the official recognition by the Government of Israel of the Armenian Genocide.
Recognizing the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in the final years of the Ottoman Empire is…
— Gideon Sa’ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) June 25, 2026
The Holy See and the European Parliament have also officially recognized the genocide.
Over 200 memorials have been erected across 32 countries to commemorate the event.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
The Armenian Genocide began in April 1915 and led to the deaths of approximately 1.5 million Armenians, as well as the systematic destruction of their heritage and culture.
Spearheaded by the Ottoman Empire’s Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the Ottoman government arrested, deported, and murdered hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders in Constantinople before turning its attention to the remaining populace.
Between 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam, and an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were forced on death marches through the Syrian desert, suffering mass murder, rape, starvation and thirst.
Survivors of the marches were sentenced to concentration camps, however the ethnic cleansing of survivors, carried out by Turkish nationalists, continued on through the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923).
There are roughly 11 million ethnic Armenians alive today.
