Daily Slave
July 22, 2014
A Turkish newspaper columnist recently wrote a piece praising Adolf Hitler while engaging in some fairly hardcore anti-Jew, anti-Israel rhetoric. This is actually a good sign as it is clear that many Muslims who are much more aware of the Jewish problem now have journalists who are attempting to transform their people’s perception of Hitler and his historical role.
Unfortunately, Turkey’s Prime Minister recently compared the Israeli Jews to Hitler as his way of trying to demonize them even though the comparison makes no logical sense. This is especially true when one understands the nature of the Jew Holohoax.
From Washington Free Beacon:
A Turkish columnist at a pro-government newspaper celebrated Hitler in a recent column on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and demanded that Turkey’s Jewish leaders apologize for “genocide” committed by the “‘Zionist/Jewish terror base’ that is Israel,” according to a translation of the controversial op-ed.
Turkish journalist Faruk Kose, writing recently in the pro-government Turkish Daily, demanded that the country’s chief rabbi apologize “in the name of the Jews” for “Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” where Israeli military personal have launched a ground operation to root out Hamas militants.
Kose praised Hitler, engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric, and wonder if it is “legitimate to kill a Zionist,” according to a translation Friday of his full column performed by Merve Tahiroglu, a research associate for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
The highly charged column is a sign of mounting anger and increased anti-Semitism across the Muslim world as Israel increases its military operation against Hamas terrorists.
Turkey, once a reliable Western ally, has continued to move away from the United States under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who himself has come under fire multiple times in recent months for engaging in anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric.
Israel on Friday was forced to remove its diplomats from Turkey following attacks by protestors on its embassy buildings.
Kose’s column is rife with Jew-baiting rhetoric and seems to passively encourage violence against Turkish Jews.
“As a Muslim I believe that it is not in line with Islam’s justice to think that a person, just because they are a Jew, should ‘die’ or ‘be exterminated,’” Kose wrote. “I mean, if they were, I would not be upset, but I also would not argue that they should be treated this way simply because they are Jewish.”
Jewish people, “who cause strife and mischief every place they go,” should roundly condemn Israel’s military operation in Gaza, Kose goes on to state.
“There is no way we can accept this ‘genocide movement’ of the ‘Zionist/Jewish terror base’ that is Israel,” wrote Kose, who calls on Jews who “still have a conscience” to publicly apologize.
“No reason can justify this,” he wrote. “For this reason, those Jews who still have a conscience—if there are any left—should reject Israel’s massacre in Gaza.”
Feelings of anti-Semitism and violence are justified at this time, according to Kose.
“The ‘Zionist/Jewish terror base’ that is Israel, continues to turn Gaza into hell with its genocide,” he wrote. “So of course one feels like saying, ‘God bless that Hitler!’”