SAUDI VISAS
The Volokh Conspiracy is following the story of whether the Saudi government refuses to grant visas to members of the Jewish faith, as its tourism board's website indicates. It's a long story, but I was supposed to go to Saudi Arabia earlier this year for a conference of American and Saudi intellectuals, opinion leaders, whatever you want to call us, organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Saudi government. When the visa application form asked for my religion, I wrote "Jewish." I got a visa, as did several other Jewish applicants. I don't know about regular tourists, but at least under the right circumstances the Saudis let in Jews. (Much to the relief of my loved ones, the conference was postponed after too many Americans chickened out, and I couldn't make the new dates.)