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Friday, June 13, 2025
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Diaspora minister calls on Belgium Jews to flee, claiming Brussels can’t protect them from ‘Islamist mobs’
Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli seen after a court hearing in Lod of the Shin Bet official arrested in suspicion of leaking classified information, April 15, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli “highly recommends” that “the Jewish community in Belgium” leave the country, declaring that it “has been seized by Islamist mobs chanting for Hamas and Hezbollah.”
“Re-enactments of October 7 horrors and open death threats to Jewish leaders go unanswered. Hezbollah operatives operate in the country with complete impunity,” Chikli tweets. “Belgium has surrendered!”
“I highly recommend the Jewish community in Belgium to leave — this country has lost its sovereignty and can no longer protect its Jews,” he claims.
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