A recent cartoon from Egypt shows how deeply the Nazi-inspired stereotype of the Jew as international conspirator has become ingrained into the local mentality.
Above the American's flute is the caption "dubious funding"
The sack is captioned "dubious organizations"
The context for this cartoon is the Egyptian establishment's war against American funding of local human rights NGOs, which they accuse of destabilizing the country. Israel is not in any way seen by the Egyptians as a part of this issue, and is never mentioned with regard to this matter.
The "international Jew" depicted in the picture does not represent Israel. He is there merely because to ordinary Egyptians he is an instantly recognized symbol of evil global conspiracies.
Moheet.com is an important mainstream Arabic news website. It was among the first news portals to be established in the Middle East, and is currently ranked among the top 4,000 websites in the world by Alexa (which also mentions that the site's readers are predominantly women). It is not identified with any extremist positions - its depiction of Jews as inherently evil is a widely accepted and non-controversial view inside the Arab countries.
In Egypt, as in the rest of the Arab World, the historic anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is sold in new editions every year and accepted as truthful. and Egyptian state television airs a TV mini-series based on the protocols.
Many trace the origins of these Arab views to Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda, which was disseminated by the Germans throughout the Middle East in the years before and during World War II in their effort to destabilize the British-occupied region.
