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Defining the enemy as Israel, Zionist, neo-Nazi or Jewish

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Between 1952-67 Nasser's Egypt was primarily anti-Zionist, but at times also antisemitic. As president, Nasser tried to avoid antisemitic motifs in his speeches, limiting himself to anti-Zionist and anti-Israel pronouncements; privately, he admired antisemitic texts, including the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The editor of "al-Ahram", Muhammad Hassanein Heikal, who was Nasser's de facto unofficial spokesman, expressed more radical antisemitic views, e.g. that American Jews wielded a disproportionate amount of power and controlled the Congress. After Egypt's defeat in the 1967 war, Nasser exacted revenge from Egyptian Jews, he sponsored the PLO, whose Covenant advocated Israel's liquidation, and he tolerated Egyptian media and press allegations that Zionism was synonymous with Nazism. Since Nasser's death in 1970, both anti-Zionist and antisemitic diatribes have become part of mainstream Egyptian social and political life. Anti-Israel and antisemitic motifs abounded during the anti-Mubarak campaign of 2011. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Title Defining the enemy as Israel, Zionist, neo-Nazi or Jewish : the propaganda war in Nasser's Egypt, 1952-1967 / Michael Sharnoff.
Publisher Jerusalem : The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Creation Date c2012
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-26).
Series Posen papers in contemporary antisemitism, 1565-8627
no. 14
Extent 26 pages : ill
30 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990034214290205171

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