ABSTRACT
Arab political vocabulary has undergone considerable change over the last decade, its vehemence mitigated by a pragmatic approach. Not only has Arab antisemitism been originally and traditionally political rather than social, but contemporary contexts as well point to the same conclusion. Anti-Jewish expressions, scholarly studies not excluded, are openly instrumental, and the pertinence, more often than not, is unequivocally spelled out. The mainstream "national press," although not agitating constantly, does occasionally give vent to anti-Jewish sentiments or fleetingly allude, as a matter of fact, to antisemitic themes. Such eruptions or allusions, precisely because of this press's overall concurrence with the official peacetime style, testify to the rootedness of these ideas, to the common universe of discourse that exists between writer and readers in these subjects, and to their easy availability. Egyptian anti-Zionism rejects the existence of Israel primarily because it is a representation of Jewish superiority.
