Demonizing Americans in Turkey

I ran across a piece adapted and carried across AP about a recent Turkish movie which demonizes Americans.

In the most expensive Turkish film ever made, American soldiers in Iraq gatecrash a wedding and shoot a little boy in front of his mother.
They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head and drag those left alive to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, starring Hollywood actor Billy Zane as an American army officer, feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbour toward their longtime NATO allies - the Americans.

Keep in mind that Bush has pressured the EU to accept Turkey's application for entrance, and has done so consistently for years, a stance which has provoked complaints from France.

Anti-Americanism aside, there is something more deeply disturbing to the Turkish movie. It feeds into existing receptivity for antisemitism and conspiracy theory in Arab media.

Heard the truth about Saddam Hussein? He's a CIA agent, whose invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was intended to provide a pretext for crushing Iraq, the Arab country most threatening to Israel. And Monica Lewinsky? A Jewess guided by Israel to create a sex scandal for President Clinton, who was pressuring Israel to accept a Palestinian state.
Such accounts should be immediately dismissed as ludicrous, anti-Semitic fabrications. Not in much of the Arab world, however. From Rabat to Baghdad, these and similar tales are widely accepted as fact among the poorly educated populace as well as by many officials, diplomats, academics, journalists and others who should know better.
While the rest of the world is busy trying to understand how best to deal with extremism of all kinds — whether from Muslims or xenophobic Westerners — many Arabs seem locked in a never-never land where conspiracy theories, usually featuring a sinister Jewish hand and scarcely a scrap of evidence, neatly explain everything there is to know about a complex world. The West has its share of people who believe in kooky ideas, of course, but in the Middle East they are not on the loony fringe...
While not all Arab conspiracy theories involve Jews, a disturbing upsurge in anti-Semitism is nonetheless apparent. It shows itself not only in tabloid media, but in the naked hatred against Jews displayed in mainstream government-controlled newspapers. Last week, Al Akhbar, Egypt's second-largest daily, reported that Israelis were removing the organs of Palestinians killed in recent fighting and providing them to Jews in need of transplants.

Compare that with the role of the Jewish-American doctor in the movie. The role is blatantly antisemitic, yet this was not commented on directly in the Western media report. It would appear the being anti-American is the bigger offense.

I had to turn a report in India's New Kerala to learn that the role was that of a Jewish-American doctor, not a Jewish doctor and am presuming that this is accurate.

Gary Busey appears in the film as a Jewish-American doctor who carries out organ transplants on unwitting Iraqi casualties, sending the organs off to Israel and the United States.

Curiously, London is left out of that report as a destination site for organs. It is interesting to note the differing slants in reporting.