Little Green Footballs has busted Reuters for cropping out an “activist’s” knife from a photo taken on board the Mavi Marmara. The original photo, published by Turkey’s Hurriyet (and, to their credit, by AP) clearly shows one of a group of “activists” standing over a wounded Israeli soldier (in the lower right corner of the [...]
Vile Anti-Semitic Filth On Turkish TV
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Turkey has been ramping up its anti-Israel rhetoric and anti-Semitism in recent months. This has been evident for a while in the news, with many Turkish diplomats (all the way up to the Prime Minister) slamming Israel, snubbing Israel, etc. (e.g., Turkey recently banning Israel from a joint NATO air force drill).
Now, though, this growing sentiment has made its way to Turkish television, where they are airing a new drama that could easily be mistaken for a typical Palestinian TV show, with its outright scandalous and libelous depictions of Israelis cornering defenseless Palestinian children up against walls and then shooting them point blank in the chest (as shown in the picture here), among other disgusting depictions.
Haaretz is reporting that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has already complained to Turkey and has
instructed staff at the Foreign Ministry to protest in the face of their Turkish counterparts. He stressed that airing this type of show reflects a grave level of incitement against Israel – and with government approval.
…Lieberman said that “broadcasting this series is incitement of the most severe kind, and it is done under government sponsorship,” according to the Foreign Ministry statement.
“Such a drama series, which doesn’t even have the slightest link to reality and which presents Israeli soldiers as murderers of innocent children, isn’t worthy of being broadcast even by enemy states and certainly not in a state which has full diplomatic relations with Israel,” he said.
A partial episode can be seen here: