Leader of Israel’s opposition Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid invoked the Armenian Genocide to denounce Turkish president Erdogan, Times of Israel reported.

Erdogan made critical remarks over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.

“Those who deny the murder of children in the Armenian genocide should not preach morality at us,” Lapid tweeted on Sunday.

Earlier Lapid has publicly called on Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Turkey’s president was a brutal dictator who supports Palestinian terrorist groups in their efforts to “kill innocent people,” as a war of words heated up between Israel and Turkey over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.

“That is not the man who is going to lecture us,” Netanyahu said at a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.