Mixed and confused- Egyptian initial responses to the Holocaust

In this chapter the author examines the questions of how, in the years immediately following WWII, Egyptian intellectuals and politicians perceived revelations about the Nazi massacres of European Jewry. Those perceptions, she argues, were filtered through two fundamental concerns: a desire to restrict Jewish immigration into Palestine and the recognition of the Jewish wartime tragedy. The tension between these contradictory imperatives produced confusion that shaped their responses to the Holocaust.