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.
