Another result of the Arab Spring

Do you remember the BBC, and others, lauding the Arab spring and its bringing of democracy to swathes of the Middle East? Do you remember the BBC celebrating the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's elections?

It was obvious what the result of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt would be, a ramping up of the hatred of non-Muslims. The Copts, the Middle East's largest Christian denomination, are suffering and now I read that:

'For the first time in 2,000 years, there will be no Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services at the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria in 5773, reports Daniel Greenfield in “In The Point.”

This was the last active synagogue in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities’ excuse for the shut-down, effectively outlawing High Holiday services in the country, were “security” reasons.

Levana Zamir, head of the International Association of Egyptian Jews in Israel, said: “It seems this is really the end of Jewish life in Egypt. The authorities have found a way to take over the last Jewish bastion, since all the remaining synagogues are already archaeological and tourist sites. It is very sad.”

This is yet another example of the fact that Jewish life is becoming extinct in the Muslim world.'

I wonder if the BBC will report this piece of news from Egypt. If they do, will they find a way to blame it on Israel?

This is the truth of the matter, whilst the BBC and others on the fascist left of British politics and society decry Israel  as an 'apartheid state', they ignore the real apartheid states that surround it. In Israel there is freedom of religious worship for all religions. In Jerusalem itself, the capital of the Jewish state for millenia, Muslims worship at their mosques built on top of the ruins of the Jewish temples. Israel cedes control, of the holiest site in Judaism, to Islam and the reward is to be called an apartheid state. Meanwhile the last synagogue in Egypt is shutdown and not a word of protest is uttered, nor do the BBC even cover the story.