Brazil has a massive Arab community, probably as much as 15 million. Luckily for Brazil, their Arabs are heavily Maronite Christian, who tend to be moderate – unlike Chile, whose Arabs are anti-Zionist Palestinians.
However, Brazil also has an incredibly large Evangelical Christian community, which is decidedly pro-Israel. At this time, the Evangelicals have the ascendancy.
The video above is a religious internet show, aimed at the Evangelicals of Brazil, about Bible prophecy happening in Israel.
The title is Unveiling the Prophecies: The Gospel to the Nations – 2.
This distinguishes Brazil from most of Latin America, indeed, most of the world.
On June 27th, 2020, on Arab TV – a cable and internet channel in Chile – premiered what will be a six part series on Palestine, called Palestinian Land or The Land of Palestine.
The show lists Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus and Nazareth as part of Palestine, when 2 of those cities are presently in Israel. And, as you see, these Chilean Palestinian-Christians claim all of Israel as part of Palestine.
One might ask why? Especially since American Christians are pro-Israel.
The Palestinian-Chileans come from either Catholic or Antiochan-Orthodox Christian backgrounds; and they have older replacement theologies which do not accept a Jewish state as readily as an American Evangelical would.
This difference in theology also explains why Europe can be anti-Israel. Europe is mainly Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran or Episcopalian. These are all litugical expressions of Christianity (they all have masses), and still endorse replacement theology.
American Christians are often dissident Evangelical Christians, and they endorse a Jewish state. A difference in theology has led to major political differences.
One could not get away with such a series in the USA without a public outcry being raised, however – as noted many times – due to a very small Jewish demographic in Latin America, and a large Arab demographic, there is no strong Jewish lobby to counter this anti-Zionist propaganda.
The only exception is Argentina which has a considerable Jewish population, but even in Argentina, the Arab population is much bigger.
Posted on YouTube: Jun 26, 2020
In Chile, the power ethnic group are Palestinian Christians. They are rich, prosperous, and over-represented in politics and in the economy.
There is considerable pro-Israel sentiment in Brazil, but that comes from Evangelical Christians, not Jews.
The only two countries which have strong Evangelical power blocks are the USA and maybe Australia. Quite possibly also Brazil, but Brazil also has a massive, wealthy Arab-Brazilian block.
I doubt that one could get away with such programming in America.
What should also be obvious is that America’s – and to a lesser extent Australia’s and Brazil’s – support of Israel comes from a large Evangelical community, who support Israel. The Jewish community in America is not large enough to impose its will.
Google has acted against two Iranian state broadcasters, Press TV and Hispan TV, blocking access “without warning” to their YouTube and Gmail accounts.
According to Israeli press reports, this came as a response to the publication of incendiary, false accusations that Israel had been conducting medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners. Google declined to comment on the reason for the blocks, but there has been an intensifying crackdown on Iranian social media in light of the U.S. government tightening restrictions on the country.
Apparently, HispanTV set up another YouTube channel to defeat the Google’s block.
In this case, the video was about some Arabs in Gaza protesting the upcoming Israeli annexation.
In Latin America, lobbying for Israel is rather weak, so there is no strong counterbalance to anti-Zionist propaganda, as there would be in the United States.
Translation from the description of the YouTube Video – using Google Translate.
TAQALID, a Palestinian Festival that seeks to reunite Palestinian families from Latin America, sharing their millennial culture with the rest of the world, this year was held in Lima, Peru. The Great Taqalid Party was held at the Palestinian Arab Union Club and featured Haitham Khalaily, the Palestinian finalist for Arab Idol as a guest artist. The images are their own.
