The Tom and Jerry cartoon show was blamed in 2016, by a top Egyptian official for rising violence in the Middle East, and Iran's Supreme Leader has compared their US relations to Tom and Jerry at least twice.
During a conference entitled "The Media and the Culture of Violence" at Cairo University, Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadek, the head of Egypt’s State Information Service, told the audience that the Tom and Jerry cartoon, which is very popular with children across the Middle East and elsewhere such as Pakistan, sets an idea in the viewer’s mind that violence is natural.
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During a conference entitled "The Media and the Culture of Violence" at Cairo University, Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadek, the head of Egypt’s State Information Service, told the audience that the Tom and Jerry cartoon, which is very popular with children across the Middle East and elsewhere such as Pakistan, sets an idea in the viewer’s mind that violence is natural.
