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<\/a><\/p>\nThe new study by the Jewish People Policy Institute found that 87% of op-ed articles about Israel in the past year from Egypt\u2019s two leading state-controlled newspapers were negative, while 29% of articles mentioning Jews contained antisemitic content.<\/p>\n
Many of the pieces portray Israel as a \u201ccolonialist entity,\u201d \u201cthe Zionist enemy\u201d and \u201ca cancerous plague,\u201d while accusing it of seeking regional expansion and the displacement of Palestinians, the study found.<\/p>\n
The AI-based analysis focused on 4,000 opinion and commentary articles from Al-Ahram, the country\u2019s largest and most influential daily, and Al Gomhuria, which is closely aligned with government authorities, in an effort to gauge how the Egyptian establishment shapes public perceptions of Israel and the Jewish people.<\/p>\n
About 30% of the opinion pieces that referenced Jews were explicitly antisemitic, the study found, employing stereotypes such as Jewish greed, referencing \u201cThe Elders of Zion,\u201d depicting Jews as disloyal and traitorous, and minimizing the Holocaust by claiming that far fewer than six million Jews were murdered.<\/p>\n
Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace agreement with Israel in 1979. The cold peace between the Arab world\u2019s most populous nation and the Jewish state has been marked by strong security ties on the government-to-government level for much of the last half century, with people-to-people relations fraying during times of volatility with the Palestinians, including the last year and half.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe data shows that unfortunately a formal peace agreement does not guarantee fraternity between peoples,\u201d Shuki Friedman, director general of Jewish People Policy Institute, told JNS on Thursday. \u201cWe hope that the regional alliance and the Abraham Accords can be expanded. These must be accompanied by education for tolerance and respectful dialogue among all the nations of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n