] In March 2002, the Saudi government daily Al-Riyadh published a
] blood libel authored by Dr. Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalahma of King
] Faysal University in Al-Dammam, Saudi Arabia, that included a
] graphic description of how Jews supposedly murdered non-Jewish
] youths to obtain blood for pastries for the Purim holiday
 . . .
] The newspaper's editor, Turki Al-Sudeiri, a member of the Saudi
] royal family, published an apology for the article and fired its
] author. In his apology, Al-Sudeiri wrote: "I checked the article
] and found it not fit for publication because it was not based on
] scientific or historical facts, and it even contradicted the
] rituals of all the known religions in the world, including
] Hinduism and Buddhism."
]
] "The information included in the article was no different from
] the nonsense always coming out in the 'yellow literature,' whose
] reliability is questionable. The understanding of this serious
] mistake escaped Ms. Al-Jalahma, as did the understanding that
] Jews everywhere in the world are one thing, while Jews belonging
] to the Zionist movement that acts to annihilate the Palestinians
] are something else, and completely different. In Israel itself
] there are moderate Jews . . .

This is in a collection of other translations by MEMRI, profiling how various Arab papers and governments are dealing with anti-semitism. Some are denouncing it, whereas in other places there are still gatherings and conventions of "holocaust-deniers", but at least there's a growing amount of internal debate in the Arab media (according to MEMRI), with some intellectuals denouncing the anti-semitic stands as unhelpful to dealing with the real issue of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

MEMRI concludes:

] Over the last two years, there has been a change in the attitude
] of some shapers of Arab public opinion towards antisemitic
] statements. This change may reflect the impact of translating
] material from the Arab media into Western languages. This
] exposure of the material in the Western media, and the resulting
] criticism in the West, particularly the U.S., in the media,
] government, and Congress, induces shapers of Arab public opinion
] to back down from their antisemitic stances – or at least to
] refrain from making antisemitic statements.

Saudi Editor Apologized for Anti-Semitic Column