Editing Gamal Abdel Nasser (section)

====Antisemitism====
Nasser told a German neo-Nazi newspaper in 1964 that "no person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered [in the Holocaust]."<ref>{{cite book |last=Satloff |first=Robert |title=Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab lands |publisher=PublicAffairs |year=2007 |page=163 |isbn=978-1-58648-510-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Laqueur |first=Walter |title=The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/changingfaceofan00laqu/page/141 141] |isbn=978-0-19-530429-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/changingfaceofan00laqu/page/141}}</ref><ref name="Wistrich1985p188" /> However, he is not known to have ever again publicly called the figure of six million into question, perhaps because his advisors and East German contacts had advised him on the subject.<ref>{{cite book |last=Achar |first=Gilbert |title=The Arabs and the Holocaust |publisher=Saqi Books |year=2011 |page=210}}</ref> Nasser, convinced of its authenticity, also encouraged the distribution of the antisemitic fabrication ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]''. He believed that the Jews greatly influenced the global financial market and that they ultimately strove for world domination. Nasser also hired former Nazi officials like [[Johann von Leers]] to distribute antisemitic propaganda. He is, however, thought to have been more moderate in that regard than contemporary political powers like Young Egypt or the Muslim Brotherhood.{{sfn|Herf|2009|p=260}}{{sfn|Stillman|2005|p=483}}