Kudos must go to the Wall Street Journal for standing by its principles. Haaretz reports that the WSJ pulled its sponsorship this week for a tennis tournament in Dubai after that Islamic state ignorantly denied a visa for an Israeli player scheduled to play there.
Dubai refused the visa for Israeli player Shahar Peer because of the supposed anger of Muslim tennis fans over the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza. United Arab Emirates officials claimed they feared riots if they allowed Peer to attend.
Once the decision was made known, however, the WSJ reacted well in a statement released on Wednesday.
“The Wall Street Journal’s editorial philosophy is free markets and free people, and this action runs counter to the Journal’s editorial direction.”
One can only admire a member of the Old Media that stands by a policy of free markets, democracy, fairness and general civility like that.
Be sure and subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. A publication of such principles should be supported.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
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Standard policy by Dubai?
fisk2521 Friday, February 20th at 11:03AM EST (link)My son and husband are both avid fans of Formula 1 racing. It has been my understanding that when this international race is held in Dubai, that any member of the teams that are Jewish are not given visas to enter. Maybe that has changed, but it always amazed me that no one seemed to pay much attention to the fact that Dubai behaved in such a manner.
I guess Dubai is considered the ‘in’ country these days with all those ‘tourist attractions that they are building for zillions of dollars. I understand, through a man who works in the oil industry in Dubai, that the reason for this is that Dubai is running out of oil and wants to become the tourist attraction of the world. The question is whether the world will make luxious, expensive trips to a desert country that behaves so discriminately towards Jews.
LDavis