If you apply to Egypt or Jordan and “Jewish”, it also serves as an interesting exercise and helps highlight the reason Israelis (many of which were expelled fro

If you apply to Egypt or Jordan and “Jewish”, it also serves as an interesting exercise and helps highlight the reason Israelis (many of which were expelled from those places) may feel the need to preserve a Jewish state. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but context is important. It’s crazy how easily people talk about Israel as an apartheid state, as if all their neighbors are less heinous because it’s not safe for any Jews to live there. Egypt likely doesn’t have such immigration restrictions because there are basically zero Jews there. Of course there were for centuries, but they were constantly persecuted, and even jailed and tortured in an effective final mass deportation. I’m sure that far more heinous laws and restrictions on Jews than being able to grant residency to your spouse remain on the books.