Egyptian Researcher Muhammad Galaa Idris on Al-Rahma TV. Photo: Screenshot.

The head of the Hebrew Studies Department at Tanta University, Egypt, Muhammad Galaa Idris claimed that the Pope is either Jewish or has been “Judaized” in an interview with Al-Rahma TV earlier this year according to newly released footage from MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute.

“The current pope Benedict IV or VII or whatever is even more Zionist then Herzl,” he claimed during the interview. “I follow his statements, and I’ve already said, that if that man is not a Jew then he has been Judaized, ” he concluded outrageously.

Asked by the host to provide examples of the pope’s Zionism, he said that “he recognized what the Nazis did to the Jews,  the Jewish Holocaust,” and that, “all his statements are hostile to the Arabs and the Muslims.”

Last year Idris reviewed the antisemitic treatise “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” for the same channel, portraying its false assertions as fact.

A video of the interview can be viewed below.