TUNIS: The head of Tunisia's moderate Islamic party has condemned anti-Semitic slogans chanted by a handful of ultraconservatives at the arrival of a top Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official.Rachid Ghannouchi in a statement issued in the early hours of the morning Monday reiterated his party's policy that Tunisia's Jews are "full citizens with equal rights and duties."
The Ennahda Party won a plurality of seats in Tunisia's new assembly in October's elections and now heads the ruling coalition.
Videos circulated online showing members of the crowd greeting Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
at the airport on Thursday chanting "kill the Jews" and "crush the Jews." The chants came from Salafist
...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't...
s that have been making their presence felt in Tunisia recently.