I am not sure how this is news, but on July 15, 2003, The New York Post reported that "Saudi Arabian Airlines is discriminating against Israeli citizens by
refusing to fly them from US airports — even when passengers are simply
looking to transfer in Saudi Arabia to another country". Officially or perhaps unofficially, it wasn't only Israelis--no Jews are allowed to set foot in the kingdom. A long time ago, when I was working for Chase (now part of JP Morgan Chase), we had a Saudi client, the Bank of Ryiadh. Someone had to travel there to install the system, train the users, etc. My boss was very surprised to learn that I am Jewish (she naively thought that I was Russian), so I couldn't go. Neither could any other of my Jewish coworkers.
A simple Internet search yielded this article from 2 years ago. Like I said, how is this news?
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