Egypt Continues To Make Life Difficult For Jews Both Inside And Outside Of Egypt

While the lines of communication between Egypt and Israel appear to remain open, the ties between Egypt and Jews remain problematic.

Remember the lulav scare last year: Egypt bans lulav exports to Israel, Diaspora:

Egypt has banned the export of palm fronds to Israel and Jewish communities abroad, leading to fears of a lulav shortage for the Sukkot holiday.

Israel had previously imported about 700,000 palm fronds a year in the run-up to Sukkot, which is about 40 percent of the annual demand, Haaretz reported. Another 700,000 of the 2 million lulavs used in Diaspora Jewish communities also come from Egypt.

Then in January of this year, it was reported that Egypt To Bar Jews From Visiting Grave Site Of Abu Hatzeira:

The War Against The Jews: The Roots Of Anti-Zionism In Antisemitism

The following by Efraim Karsh is reposted here with permission:

The War Against the Jews

by Efraim Karsh
Israel Affairs
July 2012, pp. 319-343

http://www.meforum.org/3299/war-against-jews

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The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and since Zionism is the Jewish people's national liberation movement, anti-Zionism—as opposed to criticism of specific Israeli policies or actions—means denial of the Jewish right to national self-determination. Such a discriminatory denial of this basic right toonly one nation (and one of the few that can trace their corporate identity and territorial attachment to antiquity) while allowing it to all other groups and communities, however new and tenuous their claim to nationhood, is pure and unadulterated anti-Jewish racism, or anti-Semitism as it is commonly known.

The Middle East Media Sampler 6/18/2012: New York Times Downplays Mideast Antisemitism

From DG:

1) Duranty's heir

From a Q & A with New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick about the Egyptian election:

Q. I have seen reports of virulent anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hate speech at rallies of presidential candidates. Could you please let us know about these activities which appear to be highly disturbing. 

From Philosemitism: In Brussels, A 13-Year-Old Girl Beaten Because She Is Jewish

Children are such fast learners.

Philosemitism reports: Brussels: a 13-year-old girl beaten because she is Jewish

After training at a sports center in a residential area in Brussels (Neder-Over-Hembeek), a Jewish girl aged 13 was getting ready to leave with a friend when a dispute broke out with five girls (from Morocco). The Jewish teen complained she was fed up with the girls making disparaging remarks about her and her family.