What is the official Egyptian position on Jews?
• Egypt is one of the world’s largest producers of antisemitic and Anti-Israel propaganda in the world. • Buford Furrow, the neo-Nazi who shot up the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles “has a goal to annihilate the Jewish race in the United States. I ask God to assist him in his efforts to attain this goal. Let us all join together saying, ‘May it be God’s will’.” Akhbar Al-Yom, August 13, 1999, the Egyptian government newspaper with a circulation of over 700,000 • “Anti-Semitism continues to thrive in the Egyptian media. Derogatory images and harsh accusations against Jews and Judaism have persevered through bad and good times…Anti-Semitic stereotypes continue to be prevalent in cartoons, caricatures, opinion columns, and other media, where Jews are often depicted as dirty, hook-nosed, money-hungry world dominators. Comparisons of Israel (both Likud and Labor governments) with the Nazis, denial of the Holocaust and traditional libels are also common…[M]any are printed in the g
