Controversial remark made three years ago by current Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi about Israel and Jewish people has merged. Mr Morsi, then a Muslim Brotherhood opposition politician, urged Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists, according to The Telegraph.

He also described Zionists as “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.”

Last October, weeks after being elected Egypt’s president following its revolution, Mr Morsi was recorded apparently saying “amen” in response to an Imam telling an audience to pray for God to “deal with the Jews and their supporters” and to “disperse them and render them asunder”.

Jewish groups have sharply criticized the remarks and said they raised troubling questions about the future of America’s delicate relations with Egypt’s new leaders.