Consider these two quotations, both of which are provided by members of the Egyptian intelligentsia: “The Holocaust is a lie,” and “The victory of the Zionist ideal is also the victory of my ideal.”

As some readers will recognize, the first quotation comes from Ahmed Ezz el-Arab, vice chairman of Egypt’s flagship Liberal party, the Wafd, who just last week denied that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II. “The Holocaust is a lie,” he told the Washington Times. “The Jews under German occupation were 2.4 million. So if they were all exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?” The second statement was made in the early 1920s by Ahmed Zaki, a leading intellectual.

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