Submitted by Ali Abunimah ELECTRONICINTIFADA.NET
Royal Jordanian has disavowed sponsorship of an Israeli government tourism conference to be held in occupied Jerusalem later this month amid public uproar in Jordan that the airline’s logo appeared on the “supporter” page of the conference’s official website.
The Royal Jordanian logo appeared alongside those of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Turkish Airlines. The website also reveals that the conference is sponsored by the Israeli prime minister’s office and the Jerusalem occupation municipality.
Both the Royal Jordanian and Turkish Airlines logos have now been removed.
One of the speakers at the conference is Sheldon Adelson, the American billionaire and financial backer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who notoriously claimed that Palestinians are an “invented people.”
Categories: Arab World, Asia, Israel, Jordan, Turkey