I tried to tell you — back in January 2011. “Anti-Semitism Virulent in Egypt,” by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, November 1 (thanks to Jonah):
A rising tide of anti-Semitism in Egypt has stoked
concerns among Americans and Israelis that extremism will guide Cairo’s
foreign policy under the Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed
Morsi.Prominent Egyptian political figures, religious clerics,
and even Morsi himself have joined in calling to destroy Israel in
recent weeks. Yet President Barack Obama’s administration and other
Western nations have remained silent in an effort to avoid friction with
Cairo’s new ruling class.The White House’s repeated failure to condemn this
blatant anti-Semitism is causing worry among Jewish leaders and Israeli
officials alike.“It’s very, very troubling that our government has
remained silent on the issue as far as I can tell,” Rabbi Abraham
Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Washington Free Beacon. “It’s deeply disturbing and requires pressure and statements from the U.S. government and others.”Egyptian anti-Semitism is nothing new, others observed.
However, the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power has
amplified the hate, leaving many observers concerned that anti-Jewish
prejudice will fuel the government’s policies towards Israel and even
America.“The real problem is that a cynical
government that used anti-Semitism as a tool may have been replaced by
an ideological government in which anti-Semitism is deep and serious,”
said Elliott Abrams, a former top National Security Council staffer in
the administration of George W. Bush. “The Israelis are right to worry.”Anti-Semitism is more “visible nowadays”
following former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s “replacement by the
Muslim Brotherhood,” Abrams explained….