anti-semitism in belgium

Puppets of Jews on display at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium on March 3, 2019. Courtesy of FJO

Belgian parade that mocked Jews gives up its UNESCO endorsement

Ahead of a vote that threatened to remove the Aalst Carnival from a list of important human cultural expressions, the city voluntarily surrendered the designation.

Charges dropped against Belgian soccer fans who sang about burning Jews

The decision follows a string of incidents in which Belgian authorities were seen to be lax on anti-Semitic hate speech.

Belgian parade’s Jewish float was anti-Semitic but not intentionally racist, government says

The creators and their critics should show “more empathy,” its report says.

A caricature of an Orthodox Jew on a ribbon ahead of the Aalst 2020 carnaval. (Courtesy of FJO)

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The Belgium parade anti-Semitism controversy continues, with caricatures of Orthodox Jews ahead of 2020 event

Pedestrians walking on the City Hall Square of the Molenbeek district of Brussels, Belgium on June 29, 2016. (Karmakolle/Wikimedia Commons)

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Knife-wielding Muslim man in Brussels asks passersby if they are Jewish

A painting featuring a large swastika at the Bog-Art gallery in Brussels, Belgium.(Courtesy of LBCA)

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In Belgium, Jewish leaders worry that anti-Semitism has gone mainstream

A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent)

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Belgian sign language group defends hooked nose gesture for ‘Jew’

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Belgian university uses hooked nose gesture for ‘Jew’ in sign language dictionary

"Being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an ugly nose," wrote Dimitri Verhulst. (Screenshot from YouTube)

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Belgian daily drops the phrase ‘ugly Jewish noses’ from controversial op-ed

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Israel condemns Belgian paper’s defense of op-ed about Jews’ ‘ugly noses’

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