European Holocaust deniers such as Roger Garaudy and David Irving.In addition, Koran verses and Hadith are used to demonstrate the wickedness of the Jews and the way they attacked Muhammad and Islam, as well as the dire fate awaiting them on Judgment Day.ONE CANNOT minimize the impact of these concerted measures on the Egyptian public, which is deprived of objective information and led to accept a distorted picture.Repeated protests from the Israeli government have met with the bland reply that the media in Egypt are free. Here are three outstanding examples:• When Pope John Paul II visited Egypt in February 2000, a scathing February 26 editorial in the state-owned dailyaccused the church of having yielded to Israeli blackmail and American intervention in issuing the Vatican II document “acquittingthe Jews from the charge of killing Jesus.”• In 2009, a self-proclaimed historian, Dr. Abdel Wahab Messiri, published his– eight volumes totaling 3,000 pages. In a television interview, he explained that he had undertaken this work to demonstrate that there was no such thing as a Jewish people. He received an award from Mubarak for his efforts.• When Shimon Peres visited Egypt in April 2001, a photomontage in the Nasserist weeklyshowed him wearing a Gestapo uniform.Unfortunately the fall of Mubarak did not usher in a new era. Protesters brandished pictures of the president with a Star of David to show that he was a puppet of the Jews. American journalist Laura Logan was assaulted in Tahrir Square by a mob yelling, “Jew! Jew!” Focus on Israel and the