“Every country has the right to accept or refuse entry of anybody,” Mahathir told a press conference in Vienna on Tuesday. “We have the same idea, that people who are undesirable for our country will be kept out of our country,” Mahathir added. Last week Israel said the decision was motivated by “rabid anti-Semitism” on Mahathir’s part. Last week he denied accusations of anti-Semitism, saying: “It is my right to tell them they have been doing a lot of wrong things. Two Israeli windsurfers had to pull out of a competition on Langkawi island after they were refused visas in 2015.

Source: The Express Tribune January 22, 2019 13:41 UTC