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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by abusoufiyan on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:00PM (#16017569)
Saudi Arabia does not ban Jews from entering SA it's a common myth.

Here is a testimony of a man who wrote "Jewish" under the religion item of the visa application and received his visa and visited

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/my-saudi-sojourn...

Please do not downvote me. I am the only one who provided a source for my claim of who is and is not denied visas.

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Re:Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women... by will4274 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:02AM (#16022761)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-denies-allowing-j...

> Saudi Arabia has denied a report that it would begin allowing Jews to work inside the Gulf kingdom.

> In an official statement, the Saudi Labor Ministry denied a report last week in the Saudi al-Watan newspaper to the effect that non-Israeli Jews would be able to receive guest worker visas for the first time, the UK Middle East Eye reported Friday.

First page of Google results for "Jews Saudi Arabia"

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