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On Arab Visits, State Dept. Envoy on Anti-Semitism Facing Resistance on Arab Textbooks
(JTA) Ron Kampeas - Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department's envoy for combating anti-Semitism, visited Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia last month on a mission to persuade officials to remove from their textbooks intolerance aimed at non-Muslims and to introduce positive references to Judaism. The most common response, she said, was avoidance. "As soon as a conversation about religious tolerance becomes tense, they shut it down or they go to Israel-Palestine," she said.