Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,1 (2003) 127-148
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations History 1945-
Abstract:
Discusses antisemitism in Egypt, relating to events and personalities in the 20th century and in the present day. Notes that the blood libel is a recurrent theme. Expounds on the TV film series "Horseman without a Horse" (2002), which is based in part on the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and the general failure of Egyptian intellectuals to denounce it. Many in the Arab world interpreted the terrorist attack of 9/11 as a "Jewish conspiracy". Holocaust denial in the Arab world is connected with the popularity there of Roger Garaudy. Discusses how the dhimmi status of the Jew changed with the modernization of Muslim societies. Attributes the anti-Jewish attitudes of Amin al-Husaini to politics rather than religion. Reports on the recent affair of "Al Ahram" editor Nafie's publication of a blood libel charge based on the 19th-century Damascus affair. In contrast, focuses on the 1930s, when Egyptians might have been expected to be antisemitic (when Germans tried to import antisemitism and local Jews protested) but were not, and a leading Egyptian journal opposed antisemitism. Notes the broad influence of the "Protocols" in the Arab world, but also condemnation of it by President Mubarak's political advisor, Osama al-Baz. Concludes that, in regard to antisemitism in the Middle East, one should not draw any conclusions about the past (pre-1948) based on the present (anti-Zionism today).
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