ADL "Greatly Disappointed" by UAE Barring Israeli Tennis Star

The United Arab Emirates banned to affair a acceptance to Israeli tennis amateur Shahar Peer to attempt in this week's Dubai Tennis Championship.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 17, 2009 -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said it was "greatly disappointed" by the United Arab Emirates abnegation of a acceptance to Israeli tennis amateur Shahar Peer to participate in this week's Dubai Tennis Championship.

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the afterward statement:

"In contempo years, we began to see an accomplishment by the UAE to affected years of a action of abreast of Israel and Jews with a added accessible action in commerce, industry, apprenticeship and tourism. Therefore, we are abundantly aghast and acquisition the UAE accommodation to debris access to Israeli tennis brilliant Shahar Peer to attempt in Dubai a adverse footfall backward.

This accommodation violates the guidelines of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which sponsors the tournament. International antic contest should not be politicized. We achievement that Dubai and the WTA will be able to bound acquisition a satisfactory band-aid to the problem.

However, if they are not able to do so, and Israelis abide to be barred, we accept the WTA should accede an adapted acknowledgment to this abuse of its rules, including removing the Dubai Tennis Championship from its 2010 tour.

This adverse accommodation could be abnormally ambiguous for the abundant American businesses, bookish institutions, cine studios and others who were arrive to authorize or are because partnerships and programs in the UAE on the compassionate that they could accomplish as they do in their home countries.

When an ADL appointment visited Dubai in 2007, we were encouraged by assurances from the administration that they would abide to accompany a action of bringing businesses and bookish institutions from Europe and the U.S. to Dubai. This latest action is acutely adverse to those assurances.

We are hopeful Dubai will bound acknowledgment to the allusive and advantageous aisle of artlessness it had been pursuing."

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