It’s always been bad, even when Mubarak was in power, and now it has gotten worse since the Arab Spring.
(CNSNews.com) – In the wake of the so-called Arab Spring in Egypt, which led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak and the election of a parliament dominated by Islamist parties, expressions of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and glorification have become common in the Egyptian media, including in government-owned media, according to the U.S. State Department.
“Anti-Semitism is common in the state-owned and private media,” said the State Department country report on religious freedom in Egypt for 2011, which was released Monday.
“It sometimes included anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial or glorification,” said the State Department report.
“Editorial cartoons and articles depicting demonic images of Jews and Israeli leaders, stereotypical images of Jews along with Jewish symbols, and comparisons of Israeli leaders with Hitler and the Nazis were published throughout the year, particularly after the August 18 deaths of five Egyptian soldiers in Sinai during an Israeli operation against terrorist attackers,” said the State Department.