At the reception of Mr Ismail Haniyeh (Palestinian Hamas leader) at Tunis-Carthage Airport on Thursday 5 January 2011, a handful of individuals among the hundreds of people welcoming Mr Haniyeh raised some anti-Jewish slogans. Ennahdha (Tunisia’s main Islamist-affiliated political party) reiterates that Jewish citizens have lived peacefully in Tunisia for centuries, and that Jews in Tunisia are full citizens with equal rights and duties.

Ennahdha condemns these slogans which do not represent Islam’s spirit or teachings, and considers those who raised them as a marginal group. It also denounces certain European lobbies’ alarmist declarations and attempts to tarnish the image of Tunisia and the achievements of the revolution using islamophobia and anti-semitism as pretexts for their campaign.
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