A play, performed in Egypt during the National Theater Festival, related to the events of the Jews in Germany during the Nazi era, caused a political crisis in the Egyptian street, where voices considered that the play is inappropriate in our Arab societies. The National Committee to Resist Normalization issued a statement denouncing the show and calling for an investigation into those who allowed it to enter the festival, while supporters of the show said it was, in fact, attacking racism and Israeli occupation and settlement policies. Yeh, remember the Israelis that they are doing things similar to what the Palestinians have been with them by the Nazis, and that the last chapter of the play was replaced «Jewish prisoners» The play theme b «Palestinian prisoners», to confirm the meaning indicated.
The National Theater Festival in Egypt saw the play “Sobibor”, by author and director Mohamed Zaki, about a rebellion at the Sobibor camp built by the Nazis in eastern Poland on the borders of Russia and Belarus in 1942, where thousands of Jews were detained and tortured, and how 200 prisoners were able to These Jews escaped under the command of the Russian officer Pechresky.
Earlier, the play was shown at the Faculty of Commerce Theater in Ain Shams University and won the first prize for a special competition for university theater performances in Egypt, prompting the band to take it to the National Theater Festival, which is headed by the artist Ahmed Abdel Aziz.
The show caused verbal altercations between the audience and members of the theater troupe, which amounted to quarreling and entangling hands within the theater, and almost to the physical engagement.
"There is no literary text whose idea comes out of the blue. Any writer who even writes comedy has a message or purpose from what he writes," Omnia Talaat, a journalist for Al Akhbar newspaper, said. She can live among the thousands of ideological messages of soft art, even Disney's cartoon films have hidden contents and messages to raise the minds of the world's children, and to influence them very quietly.
Talaat added: «This is what we were not aware of it in any way, we now suffer statements that are heard among the younger generations simply, as if it is recognized, such as: (Palestinians sold their land to the Zionists), (Palestinians must liberate their land themselves), and a few Denunciation and denunciation here and there, and we see Washington recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel!
"Why did the author and director, Mohamed Zaki, choose this particular issue?" Why writes an Egyptian Arab about the suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust? Even if he literally crammed some projective sentences on the question of Palestine, why choose the story of the Sobibor rebellion?
"What is the message?" Does the mastermind want to say that those who have been tortured and exterminated are tortured and annihilated today? "It is difficult to apply the theory to them:" Whoever has been subjected to injustice and extermination, cannot do it without others. "
Talaat concluded that «the reality that is evident is that world Zionism, embodied in the Israeli entity, has always used the story of the Holocaust to obtain international gains are not entitled to, and arouse the world sympathy with them to cover up their massacres against the Arab people, including us Egyptians».
“For anyone who does not know, Sobibor, one of the play's members, Mohamed Zaki, claims to be the author,” said Abul Abbas Mohammed, a journalist and head of the treasures of heritage. My play is based on the story of an American television film. Those who did this work deserve thanks from Israel and the curses of our martyrs from Palestine. ”
For its part, issued «the National Committee to resist normalization in Egypt» condemned the performance of the play, saying that «attempts to penetrate the Arab mind with Israeli allegations aim to adopt the Zionist thought, and close the eyes of their crimes, and to reach that vision of the awareness of a wide section of youth Egypt to domesticate it to accept the enemy (the other) ».
On the other hand, the author and director of the show, Mohamed Zaki, said that the play "Sobibor" about the events of "Holocaust" or Nazi persecution against Jews, a simulation of what Jews do in Israel, today, in our society, to ask an important question, is how to Jews who declare Their fathers and grandfathers always suffered at the hands of the Hitler regime in the Nazi extermination camps, to do the same day after day, year after year with the Palestinians. ”
In the same context, the theater group responding to the criticism, through a letter by one of its representatives, addressed to the «National Committee for the Resistance of Normalization», defending herself, saying: «The play attacks absolutely violence itself, and stands against Bloodshed, just because it is the blood of a person I do not like, and denounces that we (as Arabs) were killed by those who (tasted the torment, we ask, do you accept as a human being what happened to the Holocaust of the sons of Adam in the era of Hitler and including children and the elderly? Moreover, the play condemned what is happening to us as Arabs and Palestinians ».
"Critics in the Earth", a distinct group of Egyptian critics, defended the play. He wanted to express it through the offer implicitly.
The National Committee for Resistance to Normalization issued a statement denouncing the play, calling for an investigation into those who allowed it to enter the festival, while supporters of the show said it was actually attacking racism, Israeli occupation policies and settlements.
The author and director of the show, Mohamed Zaki, said that the play "Sobibor" about the events of "Holocaust", or Nazi persecution against the Jews .. A simulation of what Jews do in Israel, today, our society.