Iran TV Series Sympathetic to Jews?
Charles Johnson
Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 5:41 pm PDT • Views: 520
The flying pig nearly comes out of its hangar for this one, but I can’t help thinking that the Associated Press isn’t telling us the whole story: Iran TV series sympathetic to Jews.
TEHRAN, Iran - It is Iran’s version of “Schindler’s List,” a miniseries that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust — and viewers across the country are riveted.
That’s surprising enough in a country where hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned whether the Holocaust even took place. What’s more surprising is that government media produced the series, and is airing it on state-run television.
The Holocaust is rarely mentioned in state media in Iran, school textbooks don’t discuss it and Iranians have little information about it. Yet the series titled “Zero Degree Turn” is clearly sympathetic to the Jews’ plight during World War II. It shows men, women and children with yellow stars on their clothes being taken forcibly out of their homes and loaded into trucks by Nazi soldiers.
“Where are they taking them?” the horrified hero, a young Iranian diplomat who works at the Iranian Embassy in Paris, asks someone in a crowd of onlookers.
“The Fascists are taking the Jews to the concentration camps,” the man says. The hero, named Habib Parsa, then begins giving Iranian passports to Jews to allow them to flee occupied France to then-Palestine.
(Hat tip: ElderZionist.)
UPDATE at 9/17/07 7:28:23 am:
Sure enough, the Associated Press report is blatantly deceptive: Hot Air: Freaky deaky: Iranian Holocaust miniseries sympathetic to Jews? Update: AP story has it all wrong?
Frank says: