I’ve been told to use a duplicate passport if traveling to Israel to avoid this kind of thing. Apparently this happens all the time in several countries.
Yes, if you go to Israel and get stamped on entry it can be difficult. In some instances it is so bad that they actually will give you two passports.
Now I wonder how long it will be until you cant get back into the States with OMugabe in charge of seemingly everything.
I knew a Jewish American who worked for a major defense contractor and he traveled to Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE, Kuwait, Germany all the time. At that time the Israelis would actually provide him with a stamped insert for his passport that could be removed for travel to countries that restricted visitors who had traveled to Israel.
BTW, the Saudis were perfectly aware of his ethnicity and travels to Israel and never made an issue out of it. It just part and parcel of the hypocrisy of life in the Middle East. One place in the world he did encounter overt antisemitism was Germany, where a bartender told him Hitler didn’t finish the job. He told the bartender he was one of the ones Hitler missed. (I used to speak fair German and I would hear the same shit from Germans occasionally.)
“I’ve been told to use a duplicate passport if traveling to Israel to avoid this kind of thing. Apparently this happens all the time in several countries.”
Sometimes. I have both a US and an Israeli passport, and tend to travel on my US passport, so I’ve avoided the problm.
But my wife (who was born in the USA) occassionally had difficulties because of Israeli passport stamps.
Oddly enough, I’ve traveled to Saudi — and am openly and visibly Jewish -— on a USA passport, and had no problems.
But then again, I was there to train Saudi AF pilots and was accompanied by a member of the royal family.