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 [[Egypt]]ian newspapers sometimes run newspaper articles promulgating the matzoh blood libel to incite hatred against Jews. [[Syria]]n state-owned media have promulgated the same libel -- among other unlikely accusations, such as that "Zionists" spread aphrodisiac-laced chewing gum among Arab students. [http://mypage.bluewin.ch/ameland/Libel.html]
 
Worldwide protests against the rapid rise in blood-libels and Holocaust denial among Arabs has led a few writers in the Arab world to speak out against their peers. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram published a series of articles which admitted that anti-Semitism is rampant in Arab nations. The author of this series was Osam Al-Baz, a senior advisor to Egyptian President [[Hosni Mubarak]]. In his articles he writes that anti-Semitism should be considered to be of European origin, and foreign to Islam. This series of articles expose the myths of [[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]] and the blood libel, and decries them and false and anti-Semitic. Al-Baz warns that the term "anti-Semitism" refers specifically to hatred of Jews, and that many Arabs are anti-Semitic. He writes that Arabs have to recognize that the [[Holocaust]] really did occur. After speaking out against racism against all groups, including Jews, the writer states that responsibility for the Arab-Israeli conflict is due to [[Zionism]], and that not all Israelies are bad. (Source: Al-Ahram Weekly Online, January 2-8, 2003 (Issue No. 619), http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/619/focus.htm)
 
 See also: [[vampirism]], [[Inquisition]], [[witch hunt]]
 
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 [[Egypt]]ian newspapers sometimes run newspaper articles promulgating the matzoh blood libel to incite hatred against Jews. [[Syria]]n state-owned media have promulgated the same libel -- among other unlikely accusations, such as that "Zionists" spread aphrodisiac-laced chewing gum among Arab students. [http://mypage.bluewin.ch/ameland/Libel.html]
 
Some Arab writers have condemned these blood libels. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram published a series of articles by Osam Al-Baz, a senior advisor to Egyptian President [[Hosni Mubarak]]. Amongst other things, Osam Al-Baz explained the origins of the anti-Jewish blood libel. Some excerpts from the series are:
* "Have the Arabs or Muslims ever been anti-Semitic, in the sense of anti-Jewish? I believe that the impartial scholar must reply in the negative".
* "One might possibly understand those Arab writers and media figures who attack Jews on the basis of the racist fallacies and myths that originated in Europe had the Arab cause not been firmly grounded in just demands".
* "It is important that we refrain from succumbing to such myths as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the use of Christian blood in Jewish rituals".
* "Israelis and Zionists in general should cease accusing anyone who criticises Israel of being anti-Semitic." (Source: Al-Ahram Weekly Online, January 2-8, 2003 (Issue No. 619), [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/619/focus.htm]
 
 See also: [[vampirism]], [[Inquisition]], [[witch hunt]]
 
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