The Jewish state has no right to disregard the first genocide of 20th Century, Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) Meretz Party MP Zahava Gal-On stated on the air of an Israeli television.

“I am the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and I know what it means to deny genocide,” Gal-On said. She also added that she hoped relations with Turkey would not deteriorate, but, judging from the French experience, this should not be expected, IzRus News Agency informs.  

The Israeli MP’s announcement came a day before when the Armenian Genocide issue will be examined at the Knesset’s Education, Culture, and Sports Committee. Zahava Gal-On is among those MPs who favor this matter’s open discussion.

The Committee will discuss this matter on Monday.

To note, the French National Assembly passed, on December 22, the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides. But the bill still needs to be approved by the French Senate. The bill sets a one-year prison sentence plus a 45-thousand-Euro fine for anyone who denies genocides. And in reprisal to the passage of this bill, Turkey recalled its ambassador to France, and Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Turkey’s eight-point sanctions against France.