Syria's month-long Ramadan TV special, "Diaspora", has begun airing on Hizbullah's Al-Manar satellite television channel. Echoing last Ramadan's Egyptian series "Knight Without a Horse" based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, "Diaspora" suggests a global Jewish government as it presents a version of the story of Zionism from 1812 to the establishment of the State of Israel.
As translated by MEMRI, Episode 1 is preceded by the text: "Two thousand years ago, the Jewish sages established a global government, aimed at ruling the world..." Then, in the first scene, Amschel Rothschild lies on his deathbed and tells his sons, ""Kill the best of the non-Jews, destroy their religion, annihilate their lands."
In another scene, Dreyfuss and Herzl meet at a brothel, where a Jewish prostitute lies dying and says, "I implore you, send me only Christian clients. I don't want any Jew to be infected by me."
The series will air each night of the month-long festival of Ramadan. It is available to satellite viewers in Europe and the United States.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Amira Oron denounced the series on Wednesday, Reuters reported, saying it "rehashes a false history" of the Zionist movement that portrays Israel as "conceived in sin by deliberately shedding Arab blood and stealing Arab land".
The US State Department said on Tuesday that Washington complained to both the Lebanese and Syrian governments about the show.
