As Iran, Russia’s war with Ukraine and NATO’s defense spending dominate the organization's summit in Ankara — one issue that has escaped the media glare is the increasingly antisemitic rhetoric coming from Turkish leaders.As relations between Turkey and Israel continue to hit new lows, a war of words between the two nations has erupted.In a July 2 interview with CNN Türk, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Israel has "become a burden that humanity can no longer bear," the Jerusalem Post reported.Fidan also said that Israel is representative of "humanity’s common problems," and asked other countries to apply pressure to the Jewish State, according to Israel National News.ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAYS EU SANCTIONS REVEAL ANTISEMITISM HIDING BEHIND 'SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE MASK'Anti-Israel protesters rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on Feb.
17, 2024, over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)In a press statement, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called Fidan’s words "a clear call for genocide.
The Jewish people know very well what happens when such words are allowed to go unchallenged.The first step on the road to genocide is dehumanization."This is a sentence that sounds very familiar to sentences from about 100 years ago," Sa’ar added.
"To speak about a people as a ‘problem for humanity.’ What do you do with a ‘burden that you can no longer bear?’" he asked.Sinan Ciddi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and director of FDD’s Turkey program, told Fox News Digital that Fidan’s statement was "some of the vilest rhetoric to come out of any statesman since the Holocaust."Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbul, Turkey October 28, 2023. (Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)SIGN UP FOR ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED NEWSLETTERCiddi said that escalated anti-Israel r...