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Yair Lapid of the Blue and White Party talks to supporters at an election campaign event in Herzliya on Sept. 4, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Lapid reprimands Belgian ambassador over anti-Semitic carnival in Aalst

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Blue and White Party No. 2 MK Yair Lapid said on Sunday that he had reprimanded Belgian Ambassador to Israel Olivier Belle regarding an anti-Semitic parade in Belgium over the weekend. “I had a long...
Laurent Simons of Belgium, who aims to create medical devices, recently met with Ambassador of Israel to Belgium and Luxembourg Emmanuel Nahshon. Source: Twitter.

Child prodigy in Belgium ponders further university studies in Israel

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A 10-year-old child prodigy from Belgium is considering furthering his academics in Israel. Laurent Simons and his parents recently met with Emmanuel Nahshon, ambassador of Israel to Belgium and Luxembourg, to hear about Israel’s opportunities...
Cathy Berx, the governor of the Antwerp Province in Belgium, as well as a legal scholar and university professor Credit: Courtesy.

For Antwerp leader Cathy Berx, Israel represents ‘the summary of humankind’

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With the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, world leaders and particularly European leaders came to Jerusalem not just to commemorate the attempts of Jewish genocide that took place on their soil, but...
A view of a parade float at the Carnival of Aalst in March 2019, featuring two Orthodox Jewish caricatures that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Source: Screenshot.

UNESCO removes Belgium carnival with anti-Semitic float from heritage list

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UNESCO withdrew on Friday an annual carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst from the organization’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity over repeated charges of anti-Semitism. UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding...
The interior of the Kazerne Dossin Memorial in Mechelen, Belgium, on July 14, 2016. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Belgian BDS activist to be awarded prize at Holocaust memorial

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Belgian Catholic NGO Pax Christi Vlaanderen (Flanders) will award its “ambassador for peace” prize to Brigitte Herremans, a leading anti-Israel activist and former employee of the BDS-supporting organization Broederlijk Delen, on Dec. 12. The...
Sophie Wilmès. Credit: Damien Caumiant via Wikimedia Commons.

Belgium’s first female prime minister is also Jewish

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Belgium’s first female prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, is Jewish. On Sunday, she replaced Charles Michel and will lead an interim government until a coalition is formed. Michel left for a European Union position after his...
A view of a parade float at the Carnival of Aalst in March 2019, featuring two Orthodox Jewish caricatures that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Source: Screenshot.

EU Jewish leader calls on UNESCO to act against anti-Semitic caricatures at festival

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A European Jewish leader is calling on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, to act against organizers of the Carnival of Aalst in Belgium for its plan to use anti-Semitic caricatures...
A screenshot of Flemish sign language for using a hooked nose to describe the word "Jew.” Credit: Screenshot.

Israeli embassy in Belgium, European Jewish Association criticize anti-Semitic sign-language gesture

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The Israeli embassy in Belgium this week blasted an online dictionary of Flemish sign language for using a hooked nose to describe the word “Jew.” The Israeli embassy on Twitter expressed “shock and dismay” regarding the “ugly...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during the Public Forum Conference on Nov. 15, 2018. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Herzog calls Belgian ritual-slaughter ban ‘infringement’ of religious freedom

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Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog sent a letter on Monday to the president of the Belgian regional parliament of Wallonia in an appeal to lift the ban on kosher ritual slaughter without stunning in...
Dimitri Verhulst. Credit: Wikipedia.

Jews in Belgium outraged after daily paper prints anti-Semitic, anti-Israel article

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Belgium’s Jews are in an uproar and have filed a police complaint after a Belgian journalist wrote in an article that “there is no promised land, only stolen land.” The journalist, Dimitri Verhulst, writing in...