The Israeli Embassy in Egypt criticized the controversial Egyptian Ramadan series "Jewish Quarter" (Haret Al-Yahood) in a Facebook post Wednesday night, after it had previously offered praise and support for the TV show.
"We have felt deeply sorry while following the series 'Haret Al-Yahoud' as the series has started to take a negative and inciting path against the state of Israel and the series has used the human characters of the quarter's Jews as a mask to antagonize the state of Israel as if it were a monstrous enemy trying to eradicate everyone," the embassy said in the post.
It added that the series reflected the "ongoing incitement" in Egypt against the state of Israel and against the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries even after 36 years have passed since it was signed, saying that "there's nothing like this treatment among all of the world's friendly nations."
The Facebook post came less than a week after another post by the embassy that praised the Egyptian series saying that the series "represents Jews in their true human nature, as humans before anything else."
However, the embassy is not the first to criticize the increasingly controversial TV show about the lives of the Egyptian Jewish community in the 1940s and 1950s. With only six episodes down, the series has come under fire from a variety of different sources such as Egypt's Jewish community leader Magda Haroun who criticized its historical inaccuracies. Critics also attacked the series' writer for attempting to tackle the controversial issue.
Moreover, former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Yitzhak Levanon said “the show is anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli” in an interview with Jaffa-based Arabic-speaking i24 News, according to Egypt Independent .