Rising Egyptian Muslim nationalism dissolved all foreign minorities, not just Jews.

Evidence

It is often said that the Egyptian Jewish com­ munity has been a casualty of the Arab-Israel struggle. In a sense this is true— but it is not unlikely that the Egyptian Jewish community would have suffered the same fate even had there been no Arab-Israel struggle. The Jews in Egypt were by no means the only minority. There were also some 70,000 Greeks, 50,000 Italians, and smaller groups of Levantine Christians, Cypriots, Maltese, Armenians and others, many of them established in the country for generations. All these have suffered the same fate. Without actually being driven from the country, they have been induced to leave by the steadily increasing pressure of Egyptian Muslim nationalism, which made it very difficult for members of for­ eign communities or even minority religious communities to make a livelihood. The Greeks, the Italians and the rest have gone home, and the 65,000 Jews who once lived in Egypt are now reduced to barely 3,000. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1276 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian Muslim nationalism dispersed all minority communities, not just Jews — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1276

Broader Connections

• Egyptian Muslim nationalism dispersed all minority communities, not just Jews #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1276