Special Dispatch - Egypt/Arab Antisemitism
January 31, 2002 No. 339

Egyptian Government Weekly Reproduces Nazi Propaganda
Forgery

An antisemitic Nazi forgery targeting American Jews was
reproduced recently by an Egyptian government weekly. An
article by Salah Al-Din Hilmi, titled "The Jews are
Bloodsuckers and Will Yet Conquer America," appeared in the
Egyptian government weekly Akher Sa'a (1) and included a
photocopy of a forged document that Hilmi claimed is kept
at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia [the chief
librarian of the Franklin Institute refuted this claim and
stated the Institute does not posses any such document].(2)

The forged document appeared in a 1935 volume of the German
antisemitic book "A Handbook on the Jewish Question." It
alleges that Benjamin Franklin made comments against Jewish
immigration to the United States during a recess in the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1789 [the
convention was actually held two years earlier]. Following
are excerpts from the Nazi forgery which appeared in Akher
Sa'a:

"A great danger threatens the United States of America.
This great danger is the Jew..."

"For more than 1,700 years they have lamented their
sorrowful state, namely that they have been driven out of
their motherland, but, gentlemen, if the civilized world
today should give them back Palestine, and their property,
they would immediately find pressing reasons why they could
not return there. Why? Because they are vampires, and
vampires cannot live on other vampires... They must live
among Christians and others who do not belong to their
race."

"If they are not excluded from the United States by the
Constitution, within at least 100 years, they shall stream
into this country in such numbers that they shall rule and
destroy us and change our form of government for which we
Americans shed our blood and sacrificed our lives,
property, and personal freedom."

"If the Jews are not excluded within 200 years, our
children will be working in the fields to feed the Jews
while they remain in the counting houses, gleefully rubbing
their hands..."

Endnotes:

(1) Akher Sa'a (Egypt), January 9, 2002.
(2) In a phone conversation on 1/30/02, the chief librarian
of the Franklin Institute confirmed that the Institute does
not possess any such document.

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