Israeli right wing video depicting left wing groups as anti-Semite collaborators sparks outrage in Israel
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Israeli right wing video depicting left wing groups as anti-Semite collaborators sparks outrage in Israel
2/15/2015 1:43:00 PM
Animated video titled 'The Eternal Jew' features a German named Herr St"urmer paying a hooked-nosed Jew for slanderous information about the IDF and Israel; Peace Now demands to open police investigation into the video - The Samaria Citizen's Committee published a video on Saturday accusing Israeli left wing NGOs of receiving "millions of euros from Europe" to smear Israel in the press. The video has sparked outrage in Israel, Including by PM Nethanyau who condemned the video on Tweeter today: "I vigorously oppose any comparison between any Israeli organizations or persons - from across the political spectrum - to Nazi Germany and condemn any use such as this for the purpose of elections." "I urge everyone to keep to fair and proper rules of the game, to focus on the essential issues of our existence, to act responsibly and to avoid propaganda that violates our basic values." The "leftist Jew" is portrayed as a traitor, giving his European master information that will help damage Israel. The animated video, which is called "The Eternal Jew" (like a Nazi propaganda video from 1940) presents a German named Herr St"urmer (named after an anti-Semitic newspaper) reading a newspaper called "Hasmol" ("The Left") and summoning a hooked-nosed Jew who passes him slanderous information about the IDF and Israel in exchange for money. The final scene shows the Jew hanging from a tree with a warning that "Europeans may seem different to you, but to them ... you are exactly the same." Next are the logos of well-known dovish Israeli organizations, including the New Israel Fund, B'Tselem and Peace Now, sending the clear message that such organizations spread defamation against Israel for money paid by European anti-Semites. "Dozens of radical leftist organizations receive millions of Euros from Europe. In the best case scenario, they believe that they are leading us into becoming a more enlightened, polite and cleaner country," a text that accompanies the video says. "Well, for the Europeans, for the past hundreds of years you have been good for only one thing. The money that seems to you so shiny when it slanders settlements and soldiers will at the end be revealed to you as a unique self-destruction budget. Wake up." The Coalition against Racism in Israel said in response to the campaign, "The use of Nazi motifs is a despicable act that every law-abiding citizen should distance himself from." The group added: "There are no words to describe the shock and disgust that this video gives rise to, and even worse, is that this was done by the Samaria Citizen's Committee, a group who receives public funding. The entire goal of the video is to create hate and accusations, and it is no wonder that it was released during elections in which various people are using incitement and racism in order to gain popularity. " Peace Now, one of the organizations featured in the video, sent a letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Sunday to "demand the prosecution of the producers of the anti-Semitic and inciting video published by the Samaria Settler Council." "In this video, the line between freedom of speech and incitement for violence and physical harm was clearly crossed," Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer wrote. "The video is not only outrageous - it is criminal. I believe this video could provoke someone to act, either in a premeditated way or spontaneously, against left-wing activists. The uproar against it has crossed party lines and included a rebuke from Naftali Bennett, head of the pro-settler Bayit Yehudi party: "The video is inappropriate, but its content is very true. There are left-wing organizations that hurt IDF soldiers, it's shocking, but it needs to be handled with legal means. I will never agree to the use of Nazi symbols in the State of Israel," Bennett said. Dany Dayan, former head of the Judea and Samaria council, called this video repulsive in his Facebook page and said the video doesnt represent him and most of the Jews of Samaria.
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