JTA — Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli (Likud) compared Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Adolf Hitler and slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a post on X on Monday.

“We all know how narcissistic power-obsessed fanatics like you begin and how they end. The Jewish people have never feared mere flesh and blood, from Pharaoh until today,” Chikli wrote. “You are nothing but a pathetic blood-soaked zero who history will soon forget.”

In the post, Chikli accused the Turkish leader of being a “patron of Hamas and ISIS” and described him as a “grotesque hybrid of Hitler and Sinwar” alongside an AI image of Erdogan in front of both ISIS and Nazi flags.

Chikli’s post was in response to an address by Erdogan last month in which the Turkish leader called Zionism a “genocidal occupying expansionist ideology” and said the “struggle” against Zionism was for the “collective survival of ourselves and our nation.”

Long-standing tensions between Turkey and Israel, further stoked by the war in Gaza, have escalated in recent weeks, while Israeli concerns have grown over the tight ties between Ankara and Washington and the possible sale of advanced American F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. Erdogan, who has consistently voiced support for Hamas, has been one of Israel’s most outspoken international critics.

Chikli’s social media attack came amid US President Donald Trump’s trip to Ankara for a two-day NATO summit.

Greetings to the patron of Hamas and ISIS, the dictator who jails every critical journalist, the man behind the barbaric rapes and massacres of Kurdish, Druze, and Alawite minorities, the megalomaniac who has lost his mind, a grotesque hybrid of Hitler and Sinwar. We all know… https://t.co/ufPgqOMJt3 pic.twitter.com/oTAZBEv9Kk Advertisement if(typeof........

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