Fairfax's editorial policy?

Meanwhile the head of the government-backed Humanitarian Relief Foundation, Bulent Yildirim said, "Turkish Jews will pay dearly" for Israel's actions. He warned Jewish tourists: "Don't dare come to Turkey." Hours later, protesters descended on the Israeli Embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Istanbul, throwing stones, smashing windows and hoisting the Palestine flag on the home of the Israeli ambassador.

According to the Turkish daily HürriyetYildirim is credited with organising the Gaza Flotilla as well as coming under investigation for funding the Turkish branch of al-Qaeda. This past January, Turkish police arrested two employees of Yildirim's "charity" for alleged links to al-Qaeda.

While hardly a pro-Israel stance, Al-Jazeera does exhibit more balance and less unfairness than the folk at Fairfax. As its reporter concludes: "Condemning Israel's operations in Gaza is one thing. But crossing the line into racist insults for political benefit is an offense of a higher order. If Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) continues to win elections, as expected, this sensibility is sure to trickle down into society at large, inciting broader racism and hate crimes".

It has already begun. "If Allah allows, it will be again Muslims who will bring the end of those Jews, it is near, near," popular Turkish pop singer Yildiz Tilbe wrote on Twitter on July 10. Samil Tayyar, a prominent AKP parliamentarian, the party of Erdogan, recently tweeted similar sentiments.

"Hope your race disappears under many more new Hitlers," he saidin a reference to Jews. On July 19, the pro-government newspaper Yeni Akit ran a crossword puzzle in which the final answer, displayed under a photo of Hitler, could be translated as "We long for you."

While Erdogan's wickedness towards non Muslims is widely applauded, reported and commented upon even in Islamic media outlets like Qatar's Al-Jazeera, his bigotry is apparently too inconsequential and hence unworthy of reporting by Fairfax.

From Fairfax's standpoint, it seems, who the hell cares? After all, Erdogan is only fanning the flames of anti-Semitism and trivialising the systematic slaughter of millions of Christians.