Un article intitulé Propos d'un libre penseur: Une chance à saisir pour Israël de Guy Haarscher, professeur à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, a retenu notre attention. Il rappelle que "C'est quand même en Egypte qu'une série télévisée s'est inspiré du Protocole des Sages de Sion. Il est après tout réjouissant de constater que des régimes honnis par leurs peuples ne peuvent bénéficier éternellement de la prétendue "passivité arabe".
Or c'est une chaîne satellitaire privée (Dream TV) qui a produit le feuilleton antisémite (diffusé par 20 chaînes arabes) et un des conseillers politiques de Hosni Mubarak l'a dénoncé en trois articles en précisant qu'il était basé sur "des inventions et mythes originaires d'Europe". Comme le souligne John Rosenthal, si le régime Moubarak n'était pas exempt d'antisémitisme, il ne faut pas passer sous silence celui encore plus virulent d'une partie de l'opposition présentée quasi monolithiquement par les médias occidentaux comme démocratique :
"Knight Without a Horse: an Egyptian television series based on the infamous anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The series was broadcast in 2002 on Egyptian public television. According to John Hammond’s monograph Pop Culture Arab World!, it was also broadcast on some 20 other television channels throughout the Arab world. As documented by MEMRI here, the controversy surrounding the series prompted Hosni Mubarak’s chief political advisor, Osama Al-Baz, to publish a series of three articles denouncing the Protocols and other anti-Semitic “fallacies and myths that originated in Europe.”
It is true that Egyptian public television was one of the television channels to air A Knight Without a Horse. Boot, however, suggests that Egyptian public television also produced the series. This is simply false. The producer of the series was the private Egyptian satellite channel Dream TV.
Dream TV? Last Monday, a young Google employee named Wael Ghonim gave an emotion-laden interview on a popular Egyptian television talk show. In the interview, he discussed his detention by Egyptian security forces and praised the heroism of anti-Mubarak protestors who had lost their lives. “Whoever was killed is a martyr,” a somber Ghonim declared. While images of the fallen “martyrs” flashed across the screen — and the host implored “Don’t cry, Wael!” — Ghonim broke down in tears. The talk show interview quickly made Ghonim into the “face” of the Egyptian revolution. The show in question was produced and broadcast by none other than Dream TV.
That is right: the “face” of the Egyptian revolution was created by the very television channel that in 2002 produced a 41-part series based on the single most notorious piece of anti-Semitic literature of all time.
The question of what part of responsibility, if any, Hosni Mubarak bears for the spread of anti-Semitism in Egyptian society is one that is better left to historians and Middle East scholars rather than “pundits.” When I asked Martin Kramer of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem for his assessment, he responded unequivocally that Mubarak “was not responsible for this” and added that the anti-Semitism “actually surfaced precisely in those parts of the media that were allowed to operate with greater freedom.” The examples discussed above clearly confirm this view. It turns out that the specific instances of anti-Semitic incitement that Max Boot attributes to Mubarak and the “state-controlled media” are in fact the product of the independent media that helped to bring about Mubarak’s downfall."
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