- Egypt's Summer of Jew-Hatred Sohrab Ahmari
One
element of Egyptian culture has remained constant since a popular
revolt swept away Hosni Mubarak's pharaonic dictatorship: its virulent
anti-Semitism.
"Khaybar," a serial drama set to air during Ramadan
(starting on July 8), is Egyptian TV's latest piece of hate melodrama.
It depicts the Prophet Muhammad's conquest, in A.D. 629, of a Jewish
community on the Arabian Peninsula. Ahmed Maher, a popular actor playing
one of the Jewish villains said "Khaybar" sets out to depict Jews as
"the ugliest slice of humans." "The show will be on when most Egyptian
families are staying at home for Ramadan doing nothing but watching TV,"
Mina Rezkalla, a U.S.-based Egyptian activist noted. "The goal is
completely outward anti-Semitism." (Wall Street Journal
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