European anti-Semitic texts flooded the Arab world through translation

Evidence

A visit to the bookshops of Cairo, even to the kerb-side kiosks, shows them to be full of the most virulent anti-Semitic literature, much if not most of it translated or adapted from European works. Arabic translations of the famous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” are to be found everywhere, and are quoted and distributed by the government in its various propaganda and information agencies. Hitler’s Mein Kampf, in Arabic, is another widely distributed classic. There is an enormous literature of books dealing with Zionism and Israel—natural and reasonable enough. Many of them, however, begin and conclude with statements about the wickedness of the Jews as such and the Jewish conspiracy against the human race, for which they rely very heavily on the “Protocols” and other European anti-Jewish literature. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1279 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-1948 Egyptian anti-Israel literature imported European anti-Semitic texts wholesale — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1279; Egyptian anti-Semitic texts reproduced medieval blood-libel and Holocaust denial tropes — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1279; Palestinian Arab elites had absorbed European racial scholarship on the Semitic — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 696

Broader Connections

• Post-1948 Egyptian anti-Israel literature imported European anti-Semitic texts wholesale #expands (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1279