The U.S. Senate passed a resolution calling on the Egyptian government to prevent continued broadcasting of a television series deemed anti-Semitic. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), condemned “Horseman Without a Horse” as a tool of anti-Jewish incitement and called on Egypt to “publicly condemn anti-Semitism as a form of bigotry.”
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