Time Magazine, and probably plenty others, have been featuring this full page add to take a tour of Egypt with an all star list of guides – including famed Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass.
What they don’t mention is that Hawass is an antisemite.
In 2009, he said, “For 18 centuries, [the Jews] were dispersed throughout the world. They went to America and took control of its economy. They have a plan. Although they are few in number, they control the entire world.”
He once wrote an article where he wrote, “The concept of killing women, children and elderly people… seems to run in the blood of the Jews of Palestine” and that “the only thing that the Jews have learned from history is methods of tyranny and torment – so much so that they have become artists in this field.”
Does his hatred of Jews affect his archaeology? I don’t know, but supporting a known antisemite is itself problematic.
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