Jews in Lebanon faced discrimination after the Arab-Israeli War and during the civil war, although Lebanon was a Jewish friendly country and "far from an 'anti-Semitic [sic]' country" according to Kirsten Shulze. In the 1940s, after his appointment as interim president to supervise the parliamentary elections, President Ayoub Tabet tried to put in place a new election law that would allow Lebanese emigrants (with a Christian majority) to participate in the electoral process; this law caused a sectarian uproar (from Muslims) and a dispute occurred over the distribution of parliament seats. Dr. Ayoub Tabet was dismissed, and Christian emigrants were prevented from voting in the elections until 2018 by a law sought by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Gebran Bassil.