Mainstream Arab newspaper accuses Jews of lying - by lying about Jews ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, March 31, 2025

Mainstream Arab newspaper accuses Jews of lying - by lying about Jews

Al Quds al Arabi, considered a serious, independent UK-based pan-Arab newspaper, has an article called "Lies spread by the Zionist and Western media about Palestine."

Here's one of those supposed lies:

In 1903, the Edison Company, funded by the Jewish Agency, dispatched a cameraman to Palestine to produce short films that would reinforce the concept of "a land without a people for a people without a land." These films depicted the Arabs in Palestine as Bedouin groups who had come from the Arabian Peninsula and who must return to it. Thus, American and European world cinema became the spearhead in directing public opinion toward the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

There's only one problem. The Edison company never sent anyone to make films in Palestine. The Jewish Agency did not come into existence until 1929.

There are a few short film clips done in Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, usually only a few seconds showing things like Jaffa Gate (1897):

The article also claims that Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" was Zionist propaganda:

In 1940, Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was released, embracing the plight of Jews as a marginalized, persecuted community with a right to exist in their homeland.

That classic move said nothing about Zionism. But it was sympathetic to Jews, which seems to be the real issue for the writer, who goes on to say:

In general, Zionist and pro-Zionist Western media have succeeded in changing the Western mental image of the Jew, who was traditionally associated with cunning, greed, lying, deception, intrigue, and conspiracies. They have portrayed the Jew as a peaceful, docile person who desires the right to life, like all human beings.

Awful, isn't it?