The remark comes hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened a military invasion of the Jewish state.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened a military invasion of the Jewish state.
“The end of the genocidal Hitler will be the same as the end of the genocidal Netanyahu. Just as the genocidal Nazis were held accountable, so will those who try to destroy the Palestinians. Humanity will stand by the Palestinians. You will not be able to destroy the Palestinians,” the Foreign Ministry tweeted.
Comparing Israel to the Nazis is antisemitic according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, which has been adopted by more than a thousand global entities, including over 40 United Nations member states, since the IHRA adopted the language in 2016.
“We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them,” Erdoğan said in a televised address, per Reuters.