Turkish Jews urged to apologize for 'Israeli killing of Muslims'

[King_David]

Radical newspaper affiliated with Prime Minister Erdogan accuses Turkey's Jewish community of encouraging 'murder of children' in Gaza.

"You came here after being banished from Spain," Yeni Akit correspondent Faruk Köse wrote Wednesday in an open letter to Hakham Bashi, the chief rabbi of Turkey's Jewish community. "You have lived comfortably among us for 500 years and gotten rich at our expense. Is this your gratitude – killing Muslims? Erdogan, demand that the community leader apologize!"



In the right-wing newspaper's editorial, Ali Karahasanoğlu wrote: "After the barrage of missiles which hit the capital city of Tel Aviv, Israel has been pushed into a corner and is crying out for a ceasefire, which at the moment only serves Israel and the United States.


"The IDF is using forbidden weapons, intentionally killing children and murdering Muslims for the sake of murdering Muslims. Hamas is unprepared to accept dictations from Israel and the US, and will only lay down its weapon after its understandings are accepted.


"While all this is happening, the journal of the Jewish community in Turkey, 'Shalom,' is referring to the murder of children in Gaza as 'taking care of terrorists


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4545097,00.html

[King_David]

1. And there will be those here that will excuse this,

As a consequence of the occupation or something, because anti Semitism only occurs since 1967 or something.


Same as the Moroccan Rabbi who was beaten.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/113468222

[King_David]

2. Erdogan's former classmate blasts anti-Semitism on Turkish TV

Avraham Krispin of Tel Aviv still remembers how Turkey's prime minister used to walk around school with a copy of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf.' Now he is he irritated by a new series in which a Turkish hero fights a religious Jew.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4507646,00.html

[King_David]

4. As In the Moroccan Rabbi thread :

;End the occupation. Terrible for the Turkish Jews, frightening blow back.; n/t

[hack89]

5. Anti-semitism you mean. Nt

[hack89]

7. What do Turkish Jews have to apologize for?

Are all Jews responsible for what Israel does?

[King_David]

9. Some on this forum believe so,

Read the thread on the Moroccan Rabbi.. Lots of talk about the "correlation " )

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113468222