The Star of David raises a crisis in the children's toys market in Egypt

CAIRO -

Like all his peers, nine-year-old Egyptian boy Iyad Mohamed asked his father to buy a toy on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which the father did immediately, but this did not add the expected joy to his child.

Father Muhammad Fouad was surprised that the imported toy he bought for his son was worth 50 Egyptian pounds (equivalent to $3) with the Star of David imprinted on it, the most prominent symbol of the Jewish religion.

Fouad returned the game to the store he had bought it from, and what caught his attention was that the seller did not argue with him, as sellers usually do in such cases, but rather immediately met his request to get his money back and return the game.

Fouad explained - in press statements - that he resorted to social networking sites to warn parents of the game spread in the markets, as it represents a great danger to children from his point of view, adding that the Zionist entity seeks to consolidate its presence among the new generations by such means, according to his belief.

Poison in honey

The news of the existence of a game engraved with the Star of David in the Egyptian markets met with a wide interaction among the pioneers of social media platforms, some of them warned of the danger of children accustomed to seeing Jewish religious symbols because this will extend in time to accept the Zionist presence in their surroundings, describing the matter as poisoning honey.

While others saw that the political and economic normalization with Israel risks greater than a children's game sold in the markets.

Meanwhile, a number of social media pioneers repeatedly asked about the identity of the importer of such a controversial game, and did he realize the seriousness of the matter or did he do it in good faith.

Egyptian Chamber of Commerce: We are looking for an importer of the controversial Star of David

game #Egypt#Israel#play_children#normalization#CIA pic.twitter.com/CVJNA0EcMG

— Mohammed sabri (@sabri_sabri_sab) May 4, 2022

He stressed that the game is imported from the State of China, calling for the withdrawal of the existing quantities of the game from the Egyptian markets, adding that "the quantities imported from the Star of David game are not many, and we will search for the importer of this game."# Al-Bostaji

— El BoostEgy (@PoostEgy) May 4, 2022

Its name is Khatam Suleiman, and it is found in mosques and Islamic architecture. Once in a meeting, a participant in an Islamic hall, whose design was designed by a sheikh in an official position, said, What is the Star of David in this window? In Islamic architecture, what do we say about phobias 😁 https://t.co/ISQCMkIdva

— Ragnarok (@_Ragnarok_1) May 3, 2022

Find the importer

In front of the interaction on social platforms about the game spread in the markets, the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce’s Writing Tools and Children’s Games Division demanded to stop importing the game and withdraw the quantities offered from it in the local market.

The Secretary of the General Division of Writing Instruments and Children's Games at the Chamber of Commerce, Barakat Safa, said that the game in question is imported from China, and the quantities available in the Egyptian market are not large.

Safa explained - in a press statement - that the Chamber of Commerce will search for the importer of this game.

In a related context, the official in the Chamber of Commerce said that the demand for buying children's toys in general is very weak, and is less than last year by about 40%.

Imported from #China.. The

Secretary-General of the Children's Games Division in the Chamber of Commerce announces the search for an importer of the Star of David game spread in the Egyptian market, and demands the withdrawal of the existing quantities of it after it aroused controversy on the communication sites# Egypt pic.twitter.com/QOmUNaa56C

— Monitor Network (@RassdNewsN) May 4, 2022

recession

For his part, Osama Jaafar, the former head of the stationery and children's toys division at the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, explained that 50% of the children's toys in the markets are sold on Eid al-Fitr alone.

And he stressed - in press statements - the continuation of the stagnation in the markets after the closure of famous stores for children's toys due to the Corona pandemic that swept the world at the beginning of 2020, as well as the spread of electronic games.

According to a report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (a government agency), the value of importing children's toys from abroad during the 10 months, from January to October of last year, amounted to about 44 million and 760 thousand dollars.

And imports of children's toys recorded a noticeable decline this year;

Egypt imported games with about 3 million and 521 thousand dollars last January, while the value in the same month of last year reached about 8 million and 664 thousand dollars in January of 2021, a decrease of about 5 million and 143 one thousand dollars.

What is the star of David?

It is a star that takes the shape of a hexagon, and the Jews attribute it to the Prophet David, and it is in the middle of the flag of Israel.

In November 1879, the six-pointed star was adopted as the emblem of the Zionist entity at the first founding conference of the "State of Israel", and in 1948 it was chosen to become part of the occupation flag.

Research references confirm that the six-pointed star is not associated with Judaism, and other religions such as Hinduism preceded it, as Hindus use it to denote the universe and call it "Mandala".

The six-pointed star was also one of the symbols of the ancient Egyptian religions, and it was a symbol of the land of spirits, as it was a symbol of the god "Horus", according to the assertion of the Egyptian researcher Ali Muhammad Abdullah in his book "The Jews: From the era of David to the State of Israel."

In his book "Encyclopedia of Zionist Concepts and Terms", the late Egyptian thinker Abdel Wahab El-Messiri saw that the Star of David first appeared in 1648 AD in the city of Prague, which at that time was part of the Austrian Empire.

He explained that Prague was attacked by the army of Sweden, and the Jews were among the various ethnic groups who defended the city;

Each race was marked with a specific flag, and the Jewish race settled in the shape of a six-pointed star, as one of the priests suggested taking the first letter of the name "David", which is in the form of a triangle, which he wrote once correctly and another inverted, and then inserting the two letters together.

According to El-Mesiri, the Jews liked the idea and took the six-pointed star as a religious symbol for them, "and thus began the journey of deception regarding the Star of David and its origin," he said.