Qatar government pledges to stop anti-Semitic TV show

A government official of the Arabian Gulf state of Qatar has promised to stop broadcasts of an anti-Semitic show by his country’s television stations. Israel’s deputy education minister, Michael Melchior, on a rare official visit to the country, said on Thursday that he had received the pledge from Qatari foreign ministry director-general Jabel Al-Thani. Melchior told the newspaper "Yediot Achronot" that Al-Thani was apparently unaware of the drama series now showing on Qatari television, showing Holocaust survivors who come to the nascent State of Israel and launch a genocidal campaign against Arabs. “He was very proud of the freedom of speech advanced in his country, but strongly criticized the series and promised to attend to the matter with all severity,” Melchior said.