The American Jewish Congress lashed out at the publisher of The Leading Hotels of the World for omitting Israel from an edition intended for the Arab world. In a letter to the guide’s New York publisher, AJCongress Executive Director Phil Baum wrote, “Your actions are an anachronism, a throwback to the time when some businesses thought it necessary to become complicit in the Arab position that Israel must be isolated.”
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