Saudi Children’s Cartoon Depicts Quranic Story in Which Allah Transforms Jews into Apes

On October 9, 2021, an animated children’s video depicting a Quranic story about Jews being transformed into apes was uploaded to the Ibtikar Media channel on YouTube. The narrator told the story about a group of Jews in a seaside village that violated Allah’s commandment to keep the Sabbath by casting fishing nets on Friday and collecting the fish on Sunday. The narrator said that the group of Jews that did this was punished by being transformed into apes. Ibtikar Media is a Saudi YouTube channel.