The following is a repost of an amazing Egyptian writer who regularly addresses antisemetism in MENA. I am copying it without permission.

I found this online and what a trip down memory lane. This is the exact copy of the Protocols of Zion I owned in Cairo when I was a teenager. I was 14 when I first read this. This specific copy was printed in 2003 after a spike of interest in the Protocols due to the broadcasting of the show titled A Horseman Without A Horse on state-run TV which depicts the global Jewish conspiracy. This was immediately after 9/11 with the resurgence of mass antisemitism and anti-Americanism all over the ME. The show was shown during Ramadan when all people do watch TV. You can read a contemporary report from NYT here, https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/world/anti-semitic-elders-of-zion-gets-new-life-on-egypt-tv.html

The show was a massive success, produced, directed, and starred by Mohamed Sobhi, a widely beloved artist with Leftist inclinations. He is known for his classical Arab left shows and films.

This was a time of massive ideological inflation. Literature, visual content, TV content from the global anti-war and anti-globalization movement was all over the place. Bin Laden had inflamed the mosques, Aljazeera inflamed the satellite, and national state-run media had to compete with all of that by reviving the Arab Left. All of them started outbidding each other in anti-Americanism and antisemitism. I was an early teenager at the time and this when my passions were inflamed with hatred to Jews and Israel. In my quest, I bought that copy of the Protocols.

The introduction of this particular copy was written by Ali Goma'a who was Egypt's Grand Mufti at the time and one of the symbols of, I kid you not, moderate Islam. Here in the New Yorker, he is described as, "highly promoted champion of moderate Islam" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-rebellion-within Ali Goma'a is still "championing" moderate Islam in Egypt today.

Back to 2002. The same year, another highly influential show, "Man in time of Globalization," was aired. It was so successful that it had a second season a year after, not a common standard for Arabic TV then. The show, if you can't guess, was a piece of Leftist concentrated anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Western propaganda. Remember this is an impoverished media and information climate, to begin with. Unlike in the US, and before the internet, there was nothing else to watch or read. The war on Iraq added a whole new factor. The fall of Saddam opened the road to the Arab West for Iran. The Saudis, terrified, upped their funding and recruitment for Wahabism that was already becoming a problem and increased the flame of sectarian hatred all over.

All of this happened during the second Intifada with Aljazeera playing Mohamed Al Durra on slow-motion 24/7 with odes and stories about the "Children of Stones." Montages of Arafat declaring his slogan, "Oh mountain, no wind can ever shake you!"

"The Arab Dream." a song performed by many artists from different Arab countries became a new national anthem during that period. TV aired it constantly and we had to memorize it and sing it in school.

Fearing the Freedom Agenda, other Arab regimes fanned the flames of all of this paranoia and neurosis to create an iron wall between their populations and America's agenda of democracy and human rights. They started pushing translated content from the international left that accuses America of disguising racism, colonialism, and an attempt to steal oil as "a crusade for democracy." All of those factors created a centrifuge for radicalism. ISIS and the Arab Spring happening exactly a decade after was not an accident. It was my generation that was heavily radicalized from all possible directions: the mosque, state-run media, state-run school, satellite. Many Arabs my age, Muslims and non, are walking around with this baggage without any idea. The ones who made it to Western countries, working in academia or activism, you will find them to be perfect products of all this neurosis. We are still coming down from that wave, but I believe we are coming down. I was radicalized like many others at the beginning of that wave. Teaching myself Hebrew and immersing myself in the Jewish world, initially out of hatred, is what saved me. Others weren't so lucky.

My generation, the one of the Arab Spring, is broken. They see the Arab Spring failed. They see how it ended either in the destruction or in even more tyranny, but they have no clue why. The amount of depression and brokenness is just unimaginable. To make things even worse, in Egypt this is now the black sheep generation. The state's security apparatus treat it specifically

harshly on a highly securitized level. Like the Palestinians, they don't why, they are clueless. So it adds even more angst and depression. But the tragedy is, I know why. A lot of them are walking with a completely pathological view of the world. Completely delusional. They have no idea that they came to age under the auspices of Bin Laden, the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafism, Noam Chomsky, Yasser Arafat, the Statement of Conscience, etc. They are just carrying all of it forward. The google guy, celebrated at the time by Obama, was a clear example of that. He now makes videos, probably while he is on drugs, and broadcasts his mental breakdowns. A generation like that can not undo Arab despotism. Can not make the leap to democracy. Sadly, Arab authoritarianism is preferable.

Having a legitimate right or demand is not enough. Being repressed, or oppressed, is not enough. When there is an Arab generation who can actually decipher this, Delphically deciphers their own puzzle, that will be the day and not a moment before. And now, the bets are no longer on Egypt but ironically on the Saudis. For any Egyptian or Arab my generation who is reading this, this is your story. You need to know yourself and confronting the deep antisemitism is the key.

Obama in 2011: “What I want is for the kids on the street to win and for the Google guy to become president." https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/us/politics/12prexy.html

American liberal ignorance and arrogance is a global force of destruction.

I also would like to point out the declaration of the establishment of the Islamic State wasn't titled "The Return of the Caliphate," but "The End of Sykes-Picot." Sykes-Picot is a work of leftist political fiction that sadly everyone today is still repeating.

The CIA found Chomsky's books in Bin Laden's hiding place. The claim that the war on Iraq was the international burglary of American imperialism was constructed by you know who. If you think this was about ME history, you didn't get it, this is fully global history. I promise you, you have leftist family members and friends who participated in this symphony of resentment from their cushy places in Western universities and institutions.

And please turn this to some introspection because living in America today, I see many hair-raising similarities and I'm afraid the future holds bad things for the American young. And sadly, they may end up cluelessly crying in agony "what went wrong?" Lies are all around