Even presidents can be trolls, as the Turkish head of state proved. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a recent public speech to make some pretty ludicrous claims against Israel. “The Jews in Israel kick people lying on the ground. In fact, Jews don’t kick men but also women and children when they fall on the ground,” he told a gathering of the Turkey Youth Foundation, adding that “as Muslims, we will confront these people [the Jews] if they have courage to deal with us and we’ll teach them a lesson.”

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