ALGEMEINER - May 26, 2016
Welcome to the beauty of Chinese-Israeli
cultural relations. Seen against the backdrop of solid loathing of all
things Israeli that so dominates the European cultural establishment,
the relations between China and Israel almost seem like something out of
a dreamlike alternate reality.
The good news is that there is nothing
imaginary about them. The story of popular Israeli children’s writer
Yanetz Levi, author of the series “Adventures of Uncle Arie,” which has
sold more than 700,000 copies in Israel, is a good example of this.
Levi arrived in China this week and was
received like a rock star. Fifty thousand copies of his books sold in
China before he arrived, and since his arrival tens of thousands more
have been sold. In one school alone, 5,000 copies were purchased. While
that may not seem like much for a country the size of China, with a
population of more than 1 billion, it is still very impressive for a
children’s writer from small Israel. The Chinese children greeted him
like a superstar, shouting “Lioooshushu” (the equivalent of “Uncle Arie”
in Chinese) as he came to their schools. What is there not to love?
Evidently, Chinese children are not raised on a BDS-infused diet of lies
and hatred.
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