Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia.
“Israel has carried out atrocities and massacres that will shame the whole of humanity,” Erdogan told a packed hall in Istanbul the day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“All the values relating to humanity are being murdered in Gaza. In the face of such brutality, international institutions and human rights organizations are not taking any concrete steps to prevent such violations,” the Turkish leader said.
The human rights declaration, proclaimed by the U.N. General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, enshrines a standard for human rights and freedoms for all people.
I am guessing why he forgets to mention antisemitism, as well. I agree, islamophobia is terrible and is rising. Same applies to antisemitism and he should have mentioned it.
When you shout that everything is antisemetic of course you’re going to think it’s rising.
In the west every government supports Israel and their disgusting actions, don’t pretend this is comparable to the situation faced by Palestinians.
So when there is a pro-palestinian protest where people are asking for the destruction of Israel and extermination of all Jews, it’s not antisemitism, it’s just Jews being drama queens, right?
The fact that government supports something does not mean that there is not a serious number of people who oppose government’s decision.
Ah, the traditional racist trope that because some people who happen to be from some ethnic group want/do something bad then the entire group is “bad” hence violence against all of them is justified.
It’s funny how the people claiming that criticizing Israel is anti-semitism when they defend the violent acts of the Israeli authorities, always end up using the same style of “argument” as the Ku-Klux-Klan when they claimed to be “protecting whites”.
Unfortunately, antisemitism has lost a lot of meaning due to how much antizionism has been conflated with it.
Sure, it exists and is abhorrent. But most people are skeptical when they hear the word because of how much it’s been misused.
You can blame the zionists for this one. Religious nationalism is a disgusting thing.
Turkey has slightly more Jews than the Arab world combined, but the total between them all is only around 30k. Can’t be anti-semitic if you’ve got no Jews to hate.