الطائفة اليهودية في مصر (1897-1948)‎ : دراسة في نشاطها الصهيوني

Abstract EN

The Zionist activity of the Jewish community in Egypt coincided with the beginnings of the emergence of the World Zionist movement, which found in the Jews of Egypt a great variety and geographically close to Palestine, and from this reality the gain of support for that community and harnessing its human and material energies in the service of World Zionism was one of the goals of the organization In 1897, the first Zionist Society was founded in Cairo in the name of the "Zionist Society of Barkostash", followed by the organizations and institutions that promote Zionist ideology in Egypt and the emigration of Jews to Palestine, and these institutions describe the members of the Jewish community in Egypt with guests who cannot They settle or calm their thoughts only in their home, the Zionist movement has been active among the ranks of the poor of the Jews of Egypt, and the Zionist propaganda has taken their promise of economic prosperity, democracy, tolerance and freedom of opinion in their promised state, and it is noteworthy that the Jewish community in Egypt enjoyed religious tolerance and freedom Wide and government support, the Egyptian government did not interfere in the affairs of that community, and this contributed to the growing phenomenon of Zionist activity in Egypt, and that activity was initially met with a bit of indifference from the government and the Muslim clerics and the general Egyptian people, perhaps because they did not know the dangerous intentions of that The global project, which intends to gather Jews from all over the world and settle them in Palestine, and with the growing national consciousness and the development of the Palestinian cause and the intensification of political assassinations by Zionist organizations in Palestine, the intentions of the Zionist movement are becoming clearer and in Egypt has become an official and popular reaction to the activity .

The Zionist, the pro-Zionism demonstrations began to meet with counter-demonstrations, the events of the autumn of 1945 were an example, and the wave of public outrage in Egypt was not directed at Egyptian Jews for being Jews, but for their pro-Zionism activities that were a provocation to Egyptian public opinion, this was The continued provocation by them is a cause of aggression against them and their economic centers in the country which led to the emigration of a large part of the community to outside Egypt, that the presence of Zionist activity in some of the Jewish community in Egypt, did not prevent some of the children of that left-leaning sect from taking another stand Completely opposite, it was founded in the middle of 1946 in Egypt by an association against the idea of World Zionism, known as the Israeli Association against Zionism, which was of the view that the interest of the Jewish community requires standing by the Egyptian government and fighting Zionist ideas.

In this humble research, a historical study followed the most important details of Zionist activity in Egypt in the period (1897-1948), since the founding of the first Zionist Organization in Egypt until the 1948 war, after which the members of the Jewish community in Egypt were subjected to attacks and expected reactions that prompted the majority of them to leave the country.