Pages

Thursday, October 23, 2014

"Protocols" in Arab media this month

Here is a survey of how the Arab media has mentioned the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in recent weeks.

Moroccan news site Hespress has a long, convoluted op-ed that tries to claim that between the Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations acceptance of the British Mandate and the 1947 UN partition resolution, that the entire world must be run by Zionists who are following the Protocols, "which is a collection of evil texts centered around the plan of the Jews to control the world through the international economy and the creation of global institutions belonging to its global influence."

Akhbar Cairo has a long running series on the Protocols, and it discusses Protocol 11 - control of the publishing houses and news agencies.

If I am understanding this Egyptian Youm7 story correctly, there will be a rebroadcast of the classic antisemitic film "Horseman without a Horse" this month, or perhaps an in-depth interview with its creator and star. That 2002 miniseries was based on the Protocols.

A person won an award in Egypt on his book analyzing the Protocols.

The only Arab story I've seen in recent memory that assumes that the Protocols are fake is this one in Akhbar Now that surveys how the US was rife with antisemitism in the 1930s, using Father Charles Coughlin's radio program as an example, and notes that thereis very little Jew-hatred in the US today. The author posits that the same will happen with Muslims and that in a couple of generations they will be accepted as full members of US society.