Thread by @Nervana_1

#Thread 🧵
Out of all #Egypt’s weekly news, the influx of Israeli tourists to Sinai for #Passover caught the attention of many Egyptians and triggered mixed responses. 1/

https://twitter.com/nervana_1/status/1515771727732690944

Qatar’s Al-Jazeera has published this clip about the long queue of Israelis waiting to enter #Egypt’s #Sinai.
As usual, many Al-Jazeera followers are full of prejudice, and they were not happy, even spouting replies with hints of anti-semitism 2/

https://twitter.com/AJA_Egypt/status/1515652416410202114

To label Israelis, not by their nationality, but by their religion as “Jews”, is in my book antisemitism.
Never thought that some of them are Druze or Baha’i for example?! 3/

To be clear, many Egyptians rejected that, even welcomed the Israeli tourists, and labelled them as guests who should be welcomed, at least for pragmatic reasons like Egypt needs tourism now. 4/

But *few* challenged this friendly approach, even disputed that Israelis contribute to tourism, “because they hardly spent” during their stay.
Such sick stereotype reflects sheer ignorance of religious habit of orthodox Jews, who probably aware of few kosher options 5/

Others trumped the nationalistic card citing “Israelis were colonising our land”.
The one I noticed are either leftists or Islamists.
With their logic, Egypt should ban Turkish and English tourists too! 🤷🏻‍♀️
6/

It easier to ignore those responses, but I opt to highlighted, because I believe it is about time for Egypt to shake the ignorant cult who advocate hate, and the populist one who don’t even care about the country’s national interests.
Enough! 7/