Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has never been
the darling of the Jewish community, but his latest comments at a UN meeting in
Vienna on Wednesday will not help his reputation. He is reported as saying:
"Just like Zionism, just like anti-Semitism, just like
fascism, it has become unavoidable that Islamophobia is considered a crime
against humanity."
The prime minister’s use of Zionism in a list of crimes
against humanity has drawn condemnation from Israel and criticism from the
United States. The translation above – which you will notice differs slightly
from the one used by Reuters here – is my own based on the Turkish words quoted by the BBC.
