More Anti-Jew Hatred from Iranian TV

Understatement of the week:

“An anti-Semitic cartoon recently shown on Iranian TV shows a Jewish rabbi planting a Nazi swastika, covering it with dirt, watering it and watching as a giant star of David grows in its place.”

For those that follow any of the blogs that watch the Middle East media, only this particular ad is new. The racist anti-Jew media spots and programs have been going on for years. This one is said to have started its run in Islamic media in January of this year:

“Iran, having vowed to wipe Israel off the map, appears to be fomenting anti-Semitic sentiment through its media.”
“The clip is currently being broadcast on the Web site of the Middle East Media Research Institute's (MEMRI) TV project.
Yigal Carmon, the president of MEMRI, said the message from the cartoon is clear.
"The idea the that they are trying to show is that Zionism [the worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the creation of Israel] comes out from the seed of Nazism. They're saying that it is the technical Jew who nurtures it and who plants it and who grows it and who irrigates it and all that," Carmon said. "Usually they would say they are not against Jews they are only against Zionists, but here you see they are saying that in fact there is no difference," Carmon said about the cartoon. "It’s the Jew who plants the swastika image and from the swastika comes Zionism."”