CAIRO,
October 24 (IslamOnline.net) - A new Arab miniseries on the evolution of
Zionism and the creation of Israel has come under fire for alleged
accusations of containing anti-Semitic remarks.
A
number of Jewish organizations are pressurizing Arab satellite channels
into taking Al-Shatat (Diaspora) off the air during the holy
month of Ramadan, read a statement by Lebanon's Al-Manar TV.
Promoted
as political drama, the miniseries traces back Zionism at all political,
economic and religious levels, and unmasking ways used by the Jews to
create their "fictitious" entity in Palestinian territories,
said the statement obtained by IslamOnline.net Thursday, October 23.
Putting
leaders and contributors to the movement on the screen, the program also
highlights their role to release its objectives culminated in the
establishment of Israel in 1948.
The
first scene is of a British Jewish grandfather flanked at deathbed by
his five sons, to deliver his will trusting them with seizing control of
the world under the name of the secret world Jewish government.
Other
related events are rolled in England, Russia, Romania, France, Egypt and
the United States, as the production unveils plots by Theodore Herzl,
the founder of Zionism, to achieve his coveted dream of setting up a
homeland for Jews in Palestinian territories, said the statement.
The
miniseries, produced by Sryia's Lin company, includes 26 episodes, with
250 actors from Syria and other Arab countries.
A
Syrian actor named Tayseer Idris is to play the role of Herzl.
Backlash
Israeli
media and pro-Israel world organizations opened salvoes on the
miniseries, which the Israeli television claimed it to be "part of
the campaign led by Syria and Iran against Israel".
Observers
dispute the claim, citing the recent Israeli army's attack deep into
Syria, which draw a world-wide condemnation as transgression on the
sovereignty of the Arab country.
"In
fact, this production is highly anti-Semitic, which alleges Jews forged
the Bible and follow the dictates of the infamous Protocols Of The
Elders Of Zion," charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights NGO.
"We
are seeing yet another chapter in the campaign to de-legitimize Jews,
their land and religion, in the Arab and Moslem world," Cooper
said.
Cooper
charged the miniseries follows in the footsteps of last year's Egyptian
miniseries "Horseman Without a Horse", produced and aired by
the Egyptian TV much to the anger of the Israeli government.
Last
year, Jewish groups, the U.S. government and Israel objected to the
Egyptian series, aired by most Arab satellite stations, on the grounds
that it incorporates ideas from "The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion," a 19th-century anti-Semitic tract.
The
Protocols describe a Jewish plot for world domination and Israelis claim
were used in Nazi Germany and other parts of Europe as a pretext to
persecute Jews.
