-Caveat Lector- > Western Union deletes Israel from Arab brochures > > > Melissa Radler > > > August 2,2002 > > > > NEW YORK - Western Union has deleted all listings for its > offices in Israel from the company's United Arab Emirates > brochures, a spokesman for the US-based company said > yesterday, citing cultural sensitivities as the reason for > the decision. > > According to Western Union's vice president for corporate > communications, Peter Ziverts, all references to Israel were > deleted from its UAE brochures within the past two > months after the company's local agent in Dubai, Emirates > Post, requested that its international mail service > literature be printed without mention of the Jewish state. > > Ziverts attributed the UAE's decision to local mores, and noted > that with offices in 185 countries, Western Union's policy is > to respect cultural diversity. > > "With so much diversity, we occasionally have to be sensitive > to local issues and customs and this is one of them," said Ziverts. > > In an e-mail yesterday, Ziverts wrote that "alternatives for > reprinting the brochure" were under discussion with the > company's Middle East office, though he declined to elaborate. > > But unless Israel is reinstated in the brochures, Western Union > may now have to contend with the cultural sensitivities of > New York's Jewish leaders, some of whom are criticizing the > deletion as an attempt to pander to Arab customers. > > "It's not only a slap in the face to freedom of communications > but a slap in the face to Israel as a democracy," said the > national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman. > "Western Union should be ashamed." > > >http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&cid=1027506428842
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