The Jerusalem Post has a report, today,  'Erdogan's remarks aid anti-Semitism" on Israeli concerns about the rising clamor of antisemitism in Turkey led by its Islamist PM Recep Erdogan.  We had written about the concerns of the Turkish Jewish community about the eruption of official antisemitism during and following the recent IDF incursion in Gaza.

Note these comments from the Jerusalem Post article:

Erdogan blasted Israel throughout the fighting, called on it to be barred from the UN, accused it of using white phosphorus against Gaza civilians and charged it with other "inhuman actions which would bring it to self-destruction. Allah will sooner or later punish those who transgress the rights of innocents."
 

Yet during the fighting, Erdogan "did not utter one word that placed even one percent of the responsibility for the conflict on Hamas," said the Israeli official. "He has utterly adopted the Hamas narrative."

One example cited by the official of Erdogan's alleged encouragement of anti-Semitic sentiments came in a January 13 speech to Turkey's parliament in which, moments after he claimed to oppose anti-Semitism, Erdogan accused Jews of controlling the media and intentionally targeting civilians.

"Media outlets supported by Jews are disseminating false reports on what happens in Gaza, finding unfounded excuses to justify targeting of schools, mosques and hospitals," Erdogan charged.

The community, estimated to number some 26,000, has seen a spate of anti-Semitic incidents in the wake of Israel's operation against Hamas.

At anti-Israel demonstrations throughout the country, demonstrators were seen carrying blatantly anti-Semitic signs. At a demonstration in the industrial city of Eskisehir, for example, signs read, "Dogs allowed, but no Jews or Armenians."

Posters placed on billboards throughout Istanbul showed bloodied children from Gaza, and addressed Jews directly, calling them "no sons of Moses."

An Istanbul newspaper published a caricature this week showing Hitler flying an Israel Air Force jet, while another called for the expulsion of Turkey's chief rabbi and claimed the Torah permitted Jews to murder their own parents.

Given the steep rise in Nazi-like antisemitism and statements by Turkish PM Erdogan demonizing Israel for Operation Cast Lead in Gaza that imperil Turkey’s Jewish community, what is it that the Congress could do? One knowledgeable observer of the terrible turn of events in Turkey for its Jewish community said that the Congress might resurrect the Armenian Genocide Resolutions that the Clinton White House and several lobby groups forced withdrawal in 2000.

President Clinton had raised “grave national security concerns” over the resolution, stressing that even the measure’s consideration would pose a threat to American lives. The President, in a letter to then Speaker Hestert noted that bringing the resolution to the House floor “could have far-reaching negative consequences for the United States.”

Now, in 2009, perhaps Madame Secretary of State Clinton in President Obama's Administration could rectify her husband’s mistake and strike a blow against Turkish antisemitism by both criticizing PM Erdogan’s demonizing campaign of Israel and Jews and support Congressional resolutions on the Armenian Genocide cited by Hitler as partial justification for his destruction of European Jews during the Shoah. ("Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?") She could start by stating that the U.S. will not attend the Durban II conference of the UN Human Rights Commission scheduled for April in Geneva.

Remember, the Armenian National Commemoration of its Genocide is April 25th.