Posts Tagged: Egypt Antisemitism
Homeless Egyptian Attacks Jewish Boy in Rome
An Egyptian asylum seeker in Rome beat an eight-year-old Jewish boy wearing a kippah on Thursday, according to police and Italian media reports. At Rome's Via...
Top Egyptian Film Critic Booted From Golden Globes Voting Body Over Antisemitic Writings
An Egyptian film critic writing for her country's main newspaper has been removed from the voting body behind Hollywood's prestigious Golden Globes ceremony, which honors...
Jews Portrayed Sympathetically in Egyptian TV Series; Public Backlash Causes Actors, Directors to Deny Support for Normalization With Israel
For the second year in a row, Egyptian television is portraying Jews in a positive light during Ramadan, much to the chagrin of some of...
Egyptian Historian: Normalize Relations With Israel, Ditch Palestinian Cause
JNS.org - Prominent Egyptian historian Maged Farag has called for his country to normalize relations with Israel and to ditch support for the Palestinian...
Egypt to Prosecute Six Israelis for Espionage
Reuters- An Egyptian state security prosecutor said on Wednesday he had ordered six Israelis and three Egyptians to be tried for spying. In...
Ira Forman Appointed State Department Anti-Semitism Envoy
JTA - Ira Forman, who led President Obama's reelection campaign in the Jewish community, was appointed as the State Department's envoy to combat...
State Department Report Finds Rise in Anti-Semitism, Persecution of Christian Minorities
The newly released International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 by the U.S. State Department study found an increase in anti-Semitism as well as persecution of...
State Department Defers Award For Antisemitic Egyptian Activist
The U.S. State Department has delayed an award it had planned for Egyptian women's rights activist Samira Ibrahim, the alleged author of anti-Semitic...
Hitler Quoting Egyptian Activist Cites “Zionist Lobby” After US Defers Award
Samira Ibrahim, the Egyptian political activist who tweeted several antisemitic and anti-American statements, as well as a quote from Adolf Hitler over the years, was...
Recipient of State Department Award Applauded Burgas Attack, Tweeted in Support of Hitler
Samira Ibrahim, a 2013 recipient of the State Department's International Women of Courage Award, has been promoting deeply antisemitic messages on her twitter feed, the...
