Amid tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, the Chinese Communist Party’s official media has been angrily rebuked by the Israeli Embassy in Beijing for broadcasting a controversial program that it says promotes “anti-Semitism that once again shows its ugly face.
On Tuesday (May 18), the host of a program on China Global Television Network (CGTN), the English-language arm of the Communist Party’s CCTV, titled “Why the U.S. Acts as a Diplomatic Shield for Israel,” mentioned several internationally taboo “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” when discussing U.S. support for Israel. anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
In the video, the CGTN hosts asked why the U.S. is always in Israel’s favor. Why have successive U.S. presidents, from Nixon to Biden, called Israel America’s closest friend?”
The hosts questioned whether U.S. support for Israel is truly based on shared democratic values, saying that “powerful lobbying” by American Jews has shaped Washington’s position on the Middle East crisis and that “Jews dominate the United States, in finance, media and the Internet. “Some believe that the U.S. supports Israel’s policies because of lobbying by wealthy and powerful Jewish-Americans and politicians for U.S. foreign policy.
In Tuesday’s CGTN broadcast, the host also accused the United States, the Communist Party’s biggest geopolitical rival, of using Israel as a “beachhead” in the Middle East and as a proxy for defeating the pan-Arabist movement.
The program was removed from CGTN’s Twitter and Facebook platforms.
The Israeli embassy responded with a series of tweets saying that Israel was “appalled by the blatant expression of anti-Semitism” in official Communist media. The tweets said, “We wish the era of ‘Jews control the world’ conspiracy theories was over, but unfortunately anti-Semitism has once again shown its ugly face.”
The tweet added that the content expressed in the CGTN video “is racist and dangerous” and “should be avoided by any self-respecting media, and that it is shameful to claim that the Jewish people have control over other governments.”
Erez Katz Volovelsky, a spokesman for the Israeli embassy, said that no response has been received from CGTN so far.
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