What some people from the are afraid of is not entering Israel; but the consequences of
them entering Israel (eg being barred entry to Dubai as a result of prior travel to
Israel).
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:26:09 +0300
From: moushirah(a)gmail.com
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011
Abbas: Let us not generalize; it is a complex and complicated matter
about the will/ability to visit Israel if you happen to be a resident
of an Arab or Muslim nation.
I believe the "difficulty" of getting a visa varies from one country
to another, but even with the help of the bidding team, an issue will
remain unresolved, that is: Some countries do not allow persons with
an Israeli stamp on their passports, to enter their borders. The list
includes: Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, UAE, Turkey ..and other
destinations. I am not sure if there are exceptions for this rule in
those countries. It is a complicated situation on political and
ethical levels.
Maybe it remains a personal choice of the participant whether to make
it Haifa or not.
M
On 8/11/10, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Not only the Middle East, but the Muslim
population at large will not dare
step into Israeli soil.
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:06:45 +0100
From: thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011
On 11 August 2010 12:37, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> wrote:
DISCLAIMER: this is a delicate issue that could
easily generate a flame.
So
please everybody presume the good faith and stay on topic :-)
I don't really know if this issue as been discussed in earlier threads
(I
subscribed to this list after Gdansk and the only pertinent thing I
found is
here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Bids/Haifa/Q%26A#Participants),
but I would like to know if there are updates about the possibility for
Middle East citizens to have permissions to enter Israel for Wikimania
2011.
I guess this type of permission is not easy to obtain (I'm thinking for
example about citizens of Syria, West Bank or Iran) and I also remember
a
discussion in Gdansk (with Jan Bart, just after the World Cup Final :-(
)
about some initiatives we could support to increase participation. Are
there
any news or updates? Could I find some information somewhere?
Thank you in advance.
I spoke to quite a few people on the Israeli bid team and at the
Foundation about Wikimania 2011 while in Gdansk and I know trying to
get visas for as many people as possible, particularly from the
neighbouring Arabic countries, is very high up on everybody's
priorities. I don't know what is being done to achieve that, but the
issue certainly isn't being ignored.
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