The document discusses rising anti-Semitism in Turkey and changing geopolitics in the region. It notes that the Israeli defense minister accused Turkey of funding ISIS with Putin, straining Turkish-Israeli relations. Meanwhile, Putin invited Jews to Russia to escape European anti-Semitism. Historically, the Ottomans protected Jews fleeing European persecution. However, rising Islamism in Turkey has increased Turkish anti-Semitism since 2003. The document argues this has united Russia and Israel in opposition to Sunni Islamism, while Turkey has become more anti-Semitic than Europe.

1. The Geopolitics of
Anti-Semitism
Iakovos Alhadeff

2. After Putin, who openly accused Turkey for cooperating with ISIS, the
Israeli Defence Minister said today that ISIS is funded with Turkish
money. See Yahoo “Islamic State 'enjoyed Turkish money for oil': Israeli
minister”, January 2016
http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-enjoyed-turkish-money-oil-israeli-
minister-155308308.html
I guess what the Israeli minister said does not help the efforts for the
normalization of the Turkish-Israeli relations. Actually it could be an
Israeli move which aims to prove to the Russians on whose side the
Israelis are on the Russian-Turkish confrontation. It can’t be a
coincidence that a few days ago Vladimir Putin called the Jews who feel
threatened by the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe to find shelter in
Russia. See Yahoo “Vladimir Putin calls for Jews to emigrate to Russia
amid increasing anti-Semitic violence in Europe”, January 2016
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/vladimir-putin-calls-jews-emigrate-
185559875.html
This is a great change, because it was always the Ottomans (Turks) who
were saving the Jews from the hatred of the Europeans during the
previous centuries. The European Christians believed it was a sin to lend
money, and they had the European Jews doing it, who were a minority
and whom they perceived as inferior to Christians. When European
aristocrats went bust, and owed large sums to Jewish bankers, they would
organize persecutions against the Jews, in order to kill them and clear
their debts.
Map 1

3. The Ottomans wanted to organize a banking system, and they welcomed
the Jews that were hunted by the Europeans. Moreover the Ottomans
were much more relaxed towards other religions than we think they were
and they respected the Jewish religion. After World War 2, even though
Hitler killed the Jews of Europe, and those who were not killed fled to
America and Israel, the Russians and the Arabs paid large sums of money
to European socialists, in order to promote anti-Semitism.
The Arabs were doing it because Israel was a thorn in their eye, both
because of its alliance with Iran until 1979, and also because it blocked
the Arab exit to the Mediterranean Sea. The Russians were doing it
because they were allies of the Arab socialist dictators in Algeria, Libya,
Egypt, Iraq and Syria. But European socialists also needed someone to
blame for their inefficiencies.
The sacred book of all Nazi organization i.e. “The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion”, which claims that everything bad is a Jewish conspiracy, was
published in Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the 20th
century. Russia

4. was one of the centers of anti-Semitism during the 20th
century, and it
was from Tsarist Russia that Jews fled to Germany during the 19th
and
20th
centuries, which at the time was a capitalist and free country, in order
to be later killed by Hitler.
As long as the national socialists (Kemalists) were ruling Turkey, Turkey
kept protecting Israel and the Jews during the 20th
century. That came to
an end with the rise of the Islamsits in Turkey in 2003. The Turkish
Islamists placed great emphasis on the war against Israel, in order to
become the leader of the Sunni world. During the late years the war
against Israel was a great advantage for the Iranians, since the Turks were
an Israeli ally, and the Saudis, even though they never recognized Israel,
had to cooperate with Israel against Iran, which is the greatest enemy for
both of them. Moreover the Turkish Islamists follow a very aggressive
energy policy, and Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt are energy routes
that can connect the Middle East to Europe bypassing Turkey as an
energy hub.
Actually it was in Erdogan’s Turkey that the sequel of “The Protocols of
the Elders of Zions” was published in the 21st
century, approximately 100
years after the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Tsarist
Russia.. See Al Monitor “Unraveling the AKP's 'Mastermind' conspiracy
theory”, March 2015.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/en/originals/2015/03/turkey-zion-
protocols-akp-version.html
Now we see the Russians and the Israelis united against a common
enemy i.e. the rise of Sunni Islamism. It is too early to tell how the
Turkish-Israeli, the Russian-Israeli, but also the Turkish-Russian relations

5. will develop. But it is already a great change to see the Turks becoming
more anti-Semitic than the Europeans, and to see the Russians, who were
more anti-Semitic than the Europeans, to invite to Russia the Jews who
feel threatened by the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.

6. will develop. But it is already a great change to see the Turks becoming
more anti-Semitic than the Europeans, and to see the Russians, who were
more anti-Semitic than the Europeans, to invite to Russia the Jews who
feel threatened by the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.