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Why Are Egypt's Liberals Anti-Semitic?
[Wall Street Journal] Amr Bargisi and Samuel Tadros - This week, Egypt will play host to the 56th Congress of Liberal International, the world federation of liberal and progressive democratic parties. Yet, at least in Egypt, the liberal parties are, for the most part, virulently anti-Semitic. Until Egypt's Jews were expelled by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and '60s, Egypt had a millennia-old, thriving Jewish community. As late as the 1930s, Jewish politicians occupied ministerial posts in Egyptian governments and participated in nationalist politics.