Egypt: Bloggers Take on the “Sons of Zion” · Global Voices
Marwa Rakha

The bombs on Gaza may have stopped falling, but a fierce cyber battle continues, with bloggers on both sides of the fence mobilising their troops to ‘obliterate’ the presence of the other – at least online.
And with anger, rage, and hatred being the best fuel for a war that could last forever, more than two dozen Egyptian bloggers are waging a war on Israel's army of bloggers.
Last month, Haaretz reported that Israel is recruiting an “army of bloggers” to combat anti-Zionist websites. The move was announced by the Israeli Immigrant Absorption Ministry which said it was recruiting Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German.
On cue, Nawara Negm, a young Egyptian blogger who has an unprecedented online presence, has decided to combat this initiative head on. She too has taken it up upon herself to recruit multilingual bloggers to mobilise their forces to combat what she describes as the “Sons of Zion” in this online war.
Attracting 127 comments from supporting bloggers, 29 contributing writers, and 21 followers, Negm, who maintains a popular blog called Tahyyes urged bloggers to join a blog entitled New Holocaust, which aims to bring under one roof all the atrocities committed by the State of Israel, since its inception in 1948.
In her blog, Negm explains the initiative as follows:
A series of posts have already started making their way to the joint blog, including posts about US activists who are pro boycotting Israeli products, Palestinian children and their suffering, Gazan widows, a message to Obama from an Israeli woman, Sami Youssef's song, and many more heartbreaking pictures and videos.
Negm also created a Facebook group , which has so far attracted more than 160 members.
Looking at the other side of the coin, and in addition to the Israeli “army of bloggers” mentioned earlier, there are many netizens using the Internet to further their political causes and agendas.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, for instance, has just launched Arabic and Persian versions of its website to combat Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world.