There have been a lot of people's reactions to this very popular game, Pokemon Go. The scholars in Egypt and Arabia declared this game haram and un-Islamic because it made players behave like drunk people and crazy to hunt pocket monsters (pocket monsters). Now on various social media in Indonesia, people are spreading information stating that Pokemon Go promotes Zionism and is a game that insults Islam. It is said that Pokemon actually in Syriac or Syriac means "I am Jewish", while Pikachu is said to mean "Be a Jew", and Charmander means "God is Weak".

Apparently this accusation has been around for a long time. In 2001 when the video game Pokemon became popular, rumors circulated that the game was a Jewish conspiracy to spread zionism. In an article published on the LA Times news site, in that year various brochures circulated in the Middle East stating that Pokemon was a Jewish company and the names of the monsters in it insulted Islam. The brochure further states that Pokemon actually means "I'm Jewish".

"The brochure, written in poor Arabic, states that Pikachu, the most popular and powerful character, means 'I am Jewish' in Japanese," said Abdel Rahman Mtowah, editor of Saudi Arabia's Al Sharq al Awsat newspaper.

The allegation that Pokemon and Pikachu are of Syriac or Syriac origin, the Aramaic dialect of Aramaic itself was debunked in 2001 when the rumors circulated. The Syriac Orthodox Christian Church in Jordan states that Pokemon and Pikachu are not of Syriac origin. A similar rebuttal was released by the Orthodox Christian church in Jerusalem.

The Japanese Cultural Attache in Jordan in 2001 stated that many people asked him to tell them the Japanese word for "Jew". Jew in Japanese is "youdayajin", a far cry from the word Pokemon.

"Pokemon itself stands for 'pocket monsters'. In Japan we use the word 'poke' which means something small. "Pokekom" means 'pocket computer'," Tahara told AFP. "I don't know Hebrew but as far as I know there are no foreign or hidden languages ​​in Pokemon," said Tahara.

Pokemon itself was created by Satoshi Tajiri, Ken Sugimori and managed by The Pokemon Company, a combination of Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures. The name Pokemon itself is an abbreviation of Pocket Monsters or pocket monsters. In Japanese it is called Poketto Monsuta. While Pikachu itself is a combination of two sounds in Japanese. Pika is the sound of electric sparks and chu is the sound that mice make.