The U.S. government has now accused Turkey of being anti-Semitic because it reacted to Israel’s savagery. It seems that criticizing Israel, no matter what sort of atrocities it commits, is enough to brand you as an enemy against Jews. Is there any other state on earth that has gotten away with murder? The “Great Turkey” epithet was personally used by Jews in the 16th century. Toward the end of the 15th century, when the Spaniards that had appeared on American coasts started to massacre the natives, they had also started burning Muslims and Jews in Spain itself. During this era, Spain had committed history’s bloodiest inquisition.
It is not possible for the U.S., which sat back and watched Hitler burn the Jews, to lecture Turkey. In the 1930s, Turkish universities had opened its arms to Jewish professors who were fleeing the Nazis. Even some of our embassies played a role in saving many Jewish lives. While these developments were unfolding, anti-Black laws had been in force in the U.S. These laws were finally abolished with great struggles in 1965. But discrimination against Blacks did not stop there. In the 2020 elections, Democrats promised that they would eradicate the systematic racism targeting Blacks and non-White Americans.
I’ve said it before: Even though Biden is a hardened politician with 50 years on his belt, he isn’t a very good history student. Mr. Biden, I implore you to take a look at what Jewish historian Elijah Capsali said in 1523:
According to Jewish historian Bernard Lewis another Ottoman sultan who rescued the Jews in Europe from being burned was Suleyman the Magnificent. Pope Paul IV had revived the Inquisition. On the orders of the Pope, in 1556, the properties of Jews living in the port city of Ancona had been confiscated, and if they did not repentantly convert to Christianity, it was declared that they would die. Thanks to Suleyman the Magnificent’s intervention many Jews had been saved.
In the 16th century Portuguese Jewish globetrotter Samuel Usque in his book, “Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel,” consoled the oppressed Jews with “Great Turkey”:
The root of “anti-Semitsim” lies in the European-Christian world. As the Crusaders were traveling toward Jerusalem during the Crusades, they massacred Jews in their route from Germany to Hungary. This is how the first Jewish massacres started in Europe. The Crusaders, who occupied Jerusalem in 1099, massacred Muslims and Jews in the city. When Salaheddine Al-Ayyoubi saved Jerusalem in 1187, not a single Christian was touched in the city. Jews jubilantly celebrated the entry of Muslim soldiers into Jerusalem.
The Jewish massacres that started during the Crusades at the beginning of the 1940s in Europe ended with genocide. The Western world made oppressed Palestinians pay the price for this genocide. They uprooted the Palestinians who were living in the region for 1,400 years from their homelands. With the support of the U.S., Israel transformed into a monster that slaughters women and children. Accusing everyone who revolts against Israeli atrocities and advocates restoring the rights of the Palestinians as “anti-Semitic” is profane and, at the same time, only serves to aid and abet these massacres.
