Abraham Jonas of Springfield, Illinois, whose sons fought on both sides during the Civil War, was himself an active Republican who helped place Lincoln’s name in nomination in 1860. Samuel G. Alschuler, a Bavarian Jewish immigrant and photographer, took numerous photographic portraits of Lincoln from his days as a young, rising politician to the president’s funeral procession as it worked its way through Chicago en route to his final resting place in Springfield. As president, Lincoln was regularly attended to by a Jewish foot doctor, Issachar Zacharie, who was a favorite of the whole Lincoln family. Burhan Kuzu apparently knows nothing of the philosemitism Lincoln repeatedly displayed.
As for President Kennedy, there have been whole bookshelves dedicated to Lee Harvey Oswald, but though many wild charges have been made about him, no one has yet declared that that homegrown Marxist was a tool of the “Zionists” until Burhan Kuzu came along. Kennedy himself was keenly aware of his own father’s antisemitism, and as president was pro-Israel in both his sentiments and his policies. No “Zionist” would have wanted him killed. And has Kuzu forgotten who killed JFK’s brother Robert in 1968, the brother who, had he lived, might well have become President himself? It was Sirhan Sirhan, a “Palestinian” from Jordan, who calmly explained that he had killed Robert Kennedy for supporting Israel during the Six-Day War. Kuzu could benefit from a little more study of our presidential history. However, antisemitism is by its very nature unhinged from reality; the truth seldom has any effect on those suffering from that mental pathology. So perhaps no amount of study will change Burhan Kuzu’s imperfect grasp of reality.
The lira recently plummeted in value after Trump imposed steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey, amidst a diplomatic row over Ankara’s ongoing detention of a American evangelical pastor, which also saw Washington sanction two of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s cabinet members. Turkey — whose economy was already on the brink before the spat — has retaliated by doubling tariffs on certain US imports.
I’m surprised that no one in Turkey has yet claimed that Pastor Branson is really a Zionist agent, with the perfect cover — pretending to be a pastor these past 26 years, spreading the gospel in Turkey, while actually an agent of Mossad — and clever enough to have arranged for his own arrest and imprisonment, so as to worsen Turkish-American ties. Anything is possible when those diabolically clever “Zionists” are involved. Burhan Kuzu, take note!
And then there is the head of the Turkish opposition (CHP), another unhinged carrier of antisemitism:
In a separate Twitter thread on Thursday, Muharrem Ince — who served as the presidential candidate for Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in the June 24 [2018] elections — criticized the AKP’s recent statements about the US, claiming his own party has been on the vanguard of the fight against “imperialism.”
He accused Erdogan’s party of “protecting the outpost of imperialism with every policy” since 1950, and “surrendering the state to the Fetö terrorist organization” led by Turkish preacher Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup.
What does Ince mean by an “outpost of imperialism”? This is a reference to Israel, as the ally of the United States and therefore an “outpost” of American imperialism. Why did Ince mention the date “1950”? It was on January 7,1950 that the first Turkish diplomatic representation in Israel, a legation, was formally inaugurated.
So Erdogan, who has called for an Army of Islam to destroy Israel, is here being denounced by the leader of the opposition CHP as having all along been “protecting” the very outpost of imperialist America — Israel — that he has been endlessly attacking. What’s next in the wild imagination of Muharrem Ince? Does he think Erdogan is actually a Zionist double agent, only pretending to be hostile to Israel while, all along, he’s been “protecting” it?
Just as ludicrous, Muharrem Ince accuses Erdogan of “surrendering the state” to the followers of the Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen. But Erdogan described the 2016 coup as being planned and led from Pennsylvania by Gulen. It was Erdogan who detained more than 100,000 people and arrested 47,500 of them, accusing them of being followers of Gulen. These included thousands of high-ranking officers, judges, lawyers, journalists, media personalities, and writers. All of them were charged with being part of a coup supposedly organized by Fethullah Gulen; it is Erdogan who keeps demanding that the Americans extradite Gulen from Pennsylvania to Turkey. Yet here we have the leader of the opposition charging Erdogan, who has for two years been whipping up anti-Gulen sentiment, of “surrendering the state” to none other than his worst enemy, Fethullah Gulen. The sheer craziness of Turkish political life is clearly not confined either to Erdogan or to the AKP.
mortimer says
The Turks among all nations have about the LEAST REASON to be racists !!! Turks are not a ‘race’ per se, but rather, Turks are the MELTING POT of DOZENS OF RACES brought to Turkey against their will and forced into TURKISH HAREMS to be SEX SLAVES.
Practically all modern Turks have DNA that includes dozens of haplogroups … making Turks among one of the MOST DIVERSE DNA pools in the world.
Turks are mostly descended from SEX SLAVES. Is that the source of their ‘RACIST’ pride? They should rather be ASHAMED of it.
seabird says
So true, the figures I’ve seen are that just 16-17% of Turks can claim any relationship to their original ancestors due to their propensity for murder, rape and kidnapping (and the interbreeding) with captive people from other cultures.
Nationalist Turks will also gladly tell you that they had nothing to do with the Armenian Genocide because it was “crypto Jews” who were responsible for it.
Never the less, Jews were generally spared the Turks general extermination at times of all its indigenous inhabitants (including Kurds, Alevis and Yezidis) though they too were attacked during those periods.
I’ve read that was because a Sultan once had a Jewish wife who begged him not to harm them and it became a tradition-but I don’t know if it’s true.
It’s a miracle they were spared.
As you’ve mentioned before, it is ironic that the bad habits of genocide and mass-murder by the Turks (especially rape and kidnapping) has led to the demise of their own DNA whereby only about 20% can today call themselves “pure or real” Turks.
In my book, that puts the other 80% in constant danger.
Ole Pederson says
I wonder. Sex slaves are bound to be beautiful, which is why European women were the most expensive on the Muslim slave markets. Evolution would explain why so many Muslim women are ugly beyond description, if the marriage partners are chosen by the clan bosses.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Turkey, Antisemitism Right and Left (Part Two)
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They may not otherwise have much in common, but they all hate Jewish people…
CRUSADER says
Right and Left….and straight down the middle….