Islamic anti-Semitism is instructed in the Quran, and the sentiment in virtually ubiquitous across the Islamic world, especially when Hamas attacks Israel and Israel defends itself. It is always Israel’s fault. The Palestinian jihad (presented as “resistance”) against the state of Israel is relentless, and no matter what the Palestinians do, they are supported by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and mainstream Islamic groups and institutions.
Turkey, meanwhile, has been an increasingly virulent enemy of Israel, and openly anti-Semitic in the process:
- In 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was enraged over a Kurdish referendum on independence from Iraq. He blamed “the Jew” for it and threatened war.
- In 2018, the Turkish daily newspaper Yeni Şafak, which is close to Erdogan, called for an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) “army of Islam” to attack Israel.
- Last April, Erdogan declared Israel to be an enemy of Islam. He further called for all of humanity to “follow closely Israel’s hostility against Islam.”
- A month later, when Israel was being attacked by a barrage of Hamas rocket fire and was thus forced to defend itself via Operation Guardian of the Walls, Erdogan asked the Pope to “mobilize the Christian world” to support the jihad against Israel. Erdogan also accused Israel of a “massacre” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Given Erdogan’s sentiments toward Israel, Kenan Yaşar will likely fan the flames of violent anti-Semitism against the Jewish state, in sync with the Turkish government.
“Judicial nominee for Turkey’s Constitutional Court called for destruction of Israel,” by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor, January 18, 2022:
A top contender for a seat on Turkey’s Constitutional Court once called for the destruction of Israel, a Nordic Monitor investigation has discovered.
Kenan Yaşar, an attorney who received the most votes from bar associations for nomination as a judge at the nation’s top court, predicted a doomsday scenario for Israel in a posting on Twitter.
“As your oppression increases, your end is soon. The day of your destruction is near, terrorist Israel. Let the fire you light turn into a hell for yourself,” he tweeted on May 11, 2021.
In another tweet Yaşar shared a joke about the Holocaust to support a government move in 2020 to create bar associations to compete with ones that are critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The joke he retweeted on June 3, 2020 went like this: “A man walks into a bar and sees Hitler and Mussolini sitting at a table. He walks up to them and asks what they are doing. Hitler says We’re planning WW3. The man asks what’s going to happen this time. Hitler says This time we’re going to kill 14 million Jews and a bicycle repair man. The man asks why a bicycle repair man. Hitler turns to Mussolini and says, See, I told you no one would care about the 14 million Jews.”
Other comments made by Yaşar show that he was staunchly opposed to protecting the rights of LGBTI people as well as members of the Gülen movement, a group that is critical of the Erdoğan government.
Yaşar is a senior member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and served as deputy charman of the AKP in Çorum province, the heartland of the country. He was twice a nominee for a seat in parliament in the elections of 2007 and 2011 on the AKP ticket. He is also the president of the bar association in Çorum.
If Yaşar is elected by members of parliament among three contenders for the seat on the Constitutional Court, he will be the second judge harboring openly anti-Semitic views. He is rumored to have already secured the backing of the Justice Ministry.
Irfan Fidan, a former prosecutor in Istanbul, was awarded a seat on the Constitutional Court in 2020 after he squelched the most comprehensive counterterrorism probe into the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force network in Turkey….
mike says
did I not read the other day that Turkey was pursuing peaceful or helpful relationship with Israel if so that was short lived
gravenimage says
Not sure what you read, but Erdoigan has maintained a condition of low-level saber-rattling towards Israel. Turkey also backed the Jihad flotilla.
mortimer says
NEWS FLASH FOR TURKEY: The Ottoman Empire lost World War I and was stripped of its provinces outside Turkey. Turkey has no say in the existence of Israel.
Israel is a fait accompli and is here to stay, just like Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait and Cyprus.
Let’s talk about an independent KURDISTAN based in what is now eastern Turkey.
Shalom says
Bravo Mortimer.
mortimer says
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party should be called the ‘Injustice and Economic Collapse Party’.
born saturday says
biden is about to accept the sale of latest tech f16s in dozens to turkey and accept to upgrade turkeys older f16s to the latest version just now!!! coming in the congress soon!!!
gravenimage says
Turkey: Nominee for top Constitutional Court called for destruction of Israel
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This does not surprise.