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On New Year’s Day, there was a “Twilight Zone” marathon on TV. So this seems like a good time to mention that show. As some of you already know, its creator and central writer, Rod Serling, was Jewish. So were, in a sense, the more-propaganda-like episodes of the series, since they were written by Serling himself [1]. As the show’s main writer, Serling set the overall tone of it, which included the usual Jewish paranoia about gentile society: Serling’s America was a dark and threatening place, full of sinister forces that were hostile to innocent outsiders. Interestingly, and as Serling himself admitted, he was able to use the science fiction genre to avoid the then-standard censorship of social or political topics on TV. Of real importance, of course, is how much the series has affected American culture, due to its longevity and popularity.
More about “The Twilight Zone” and Serling: [Article].
[1] e.g., the episodes “Deaths-Head Revisited,” 1961, “No Time Like The Past” and “He’s Alive,” 1963, which dealt with Nazi or Holocaust themes