Direct indignation at true ethnocratic regimes

If Israel is an ethnocracy, I wonder how your correspondent (Letters, November 2) would define other states in the region? Saudi Arabia doesn’t allow Jews to come and work in the kingdom, let alone live there.

Dubai, Tunisia, Algeria,Qatar, Oman, Bahrein, Kuwait, Lebanon and Syria are among the countries that won’t allow holders of Israeli passports to enter their countries even on a visit.

Middle Eastern Arab countries which had long-standing Jewish communities, some going back to Biblical times, have expelled their Jewish populations or caused them to flee because of discrimination and persecution, since the establishment of the State of Israel. Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen Algeria and Tunisia are now virtually or entirely Jew-free.