…The TV documentary shows interviews with other Turkish academics and writers who claim the Jews use Darwin’s theory of evolution to claim that G-d created them but everyone else evolved from apes.

And never mind such a magical transformation between men and apes, men and swine, is explicitly in the Koran, nowhere in the Tanakh.

And then an advisor to President Erdogan claims that all anti-government activities in Turkey are in fact attempts by the Mastermind to bring down Turkey and its government.

This would be like Valerie Jarrett or Susan Rice claiming that the Jews in America are behind all the criticism of the President.

In other words, I tell you all this, to make the point that Islam today has replaced Nazism as the primary vehicle of the kind of lunatic Jew-hatred that has been our fate to endure for thousands of years. The Christian and post-Christian West may have moved on from phantasmagorical beliefs in the supernatural evil of Jews to just lying about plausible evil, but not the Muslims. If this is how the powers that be in Turkey think, like the regimes in Tehran, Riyadh, Damascus, Baghdad and Sanaa, we are faced with sea of Islamic Jew-hatred as potentially dangerous as any enemy in our history.

I used to think that post-Holocaust and with all the attention given to the horror over the last couple of decades, that kind of crazy Jew-hatred was a thing of the past.

In light of Islam today, apparently not. Said Kohelet/The Book of Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun…