19.09.2008 - Source: US Department of State

Anti-Semitic rhetoric is common in both the official media and statements by NCP officials ("International Religious Freedom Report 2008") [ID 24783]

"In a July 25, 2007 interview with the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz, the Minister of Defense Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein claimed "24 Jewish organizations" were fueling the conflict in Darfur.

Anti-Semitic rhetoric is common in both the official media and statements by NCP officials."

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15.03.2007 - Source: UN Mission in Sudan

Jewish organisation says Darfur Jews are subjected to new holocaust ("UNMIS Media Monitoring Report, 15 March 2007") [ID 24338]

"The Jerusalem Post says a number of refugees from Darfur have sneaked across Israel’s borders with Egypt.

The paper quotes a member of a Jewish NGO as saying that people like these "Darfur Jews" who escape a new form of Holocaust and come knocking on Israel's doors should not be turned away.

The organization has offered to resettle hundreds of Darfurians who found themselves in Israeli jails over illegal entry.

An official in Sudan's embassy in Cairo says there are no Jews in Darfur."

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06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

No reports of anti-Semitic violence during 2006 ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19402]

"The Jewish community remained small, and there no reports of anti-Semitic violence during the year; however, government officials made anti-Semitic comments during the year. For example, in September, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Ahmed Karti asserted that the idea of sending African Union forces to Darfur under the umbrella of the UN was "all part of a Zionist colonialist plot to take over Darfur and exploit its natural resources"."

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