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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Flemish Region in Belgium

The repair shop of Ludo Eyckmans in Stabroek, Belgium. (Google Maps)
April 13, 2022, 2:21 am
Belgian mechanic says he won’t service Jews’ cars due to Israel’s Ukraine stance
Local Jewish group says it will take legal action against Stabroek repair shop owner Ludo Eyckmans
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent via JTA)
September 20, 2019, 3:00 pm
Belgian sign language center defends hooked nose gesture for ‘Jew’
Government-recognized group says goal is to offer ‘descriptive’ definitions not ‘normative’ ones, says gestures for Africans, Asians could also be ‘viewed as derogatory in 2019’
By JTA
A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent via JTA)
September 18, 2019, 6:15 pm
Israeli embassy in Belgium condemns anti-Semitic sign language gesture
Belgian university posts hooked-nose gesture meaning ‘Jew’ in video, drawing condemnation from European Jewish Association
By ToI Staff and JTA
'Being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an ugly nose,' Dimitri Verhulst wrote. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
August 7, 2019, 9:38 am
Belgian editor defends publication of column saying Jews have ‘ugly noses’
Editor of prestigious newspaper says column ‘foretells the current uproar, stating that any hard criticism on Israel will always be reinterpreted as anti-Semitism’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Members of the Belgian Jewish community seen walking on the streets in the Jewish quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, August 7, 2014. (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)
December 31, 2018, 1:22 pm
Kosher slaughter ends in northern Belgium, threatening supplies to Europe
Following ruling last year, animals must be stunned before they are killed, a measure that precludes traditional Jewish butchering method
By Agencies
An ultra-Orthodox father walks his children to Antwerp's Jesode Hatorah school. (illustrative photo: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
February 21, 2018, 8:58 am
Antwerp Orthodox school renounces document banning teaching evolution, sex ed
Benoth Jerusalem girls’ high school says employee wrong to hand teachers instructions not to speak to students about politics, racism after state funds risked
By JTA
Illustrative photo of meat (YouTube screen capture)
July 3, 2017, 4:13 pm
Belgium’s Flanders bans animal slaughter without stunning
Decision, in area where half of Belgian Jews live, to take effect in 2019, following similar rule by Walloon lawmakers
By JTA
Joods Actueel editor-in-chief Michael Freilich. (Screen capture YouTube)
February 25, 2017, 12:54 am
Belgian anti-racism official defends Palestinian he helped convict for hate speech
Editor of Jewish paper says country’s agency in charge of fighting racism is ‘only paying lip service’ in battle against anti-Semitism
By JTA
A police car is parked near the scene of a terror attack after a truck drove on to the sidewalk and plowed through a crowd of revelers who'd gathered to watch the fireworks in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Christian Alminana)
July 16, 2016, 6:55 am
Flemish Jews: Better Israel coverage might have prepared for Nice attack
After ignoring car-ramming used against Israelis ‘because of political correctness,’ Europe faced with horrible new tactic, group says
By JTA
The Antwerp Central Synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium. (Wikimedia Public Domain)
May 11, 2016, 5:30 pm
Brussels, Antwerp Jews spar over Holocaust memorial cobblestones
Jewish community split over Stolpersteine commemorative plaques in sign of growing rift between Flemings and Walloons
By JTA
New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) leader Bart De Wever. (screen capture: YouTube/ActuaTV)
May 7, 2015, 5:08 pm
Flemish nationalist leader disowns WWII Nazi collaboration
Bart De Wever, whose grandfather was a collaborator, says political forerunners’ help for Hitler was ‘terrible mistake’
By AFP
Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jambon (photo credit: CC BY Geert Renckens/Wikipedia)
October 20, 2014, 4:07 pm
Belgian Jews call out official for Nazi collaborator comment
At 2001 rally by far-right organization, deputy PM said those who cooperated with Germany ‘had their reasons’
By JTA
Elio Di Rupo (photo credit: Jaqen/Wikipedia)
August 2, 2014, 12:55 am
Flemish Jews slam Belgian PM’s criticism of Israel
Elio di Rupo accused Israel of disproportionate violence in Gaza
By JTA
Deputy minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) meets with Flemish separatist politicians from the far-right Vlaams Belang party in Israel, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (screenshot from Akunis's official Facebook page)
March 30, 2014, 11:37 am
Deputy minister welcomes far-right MPs, drawing criticism
Likud MK Ofir Akunis says he did not know of lawmakers’ extremist views when he met with them
By Yifa Yaakov
The grave of Cyriel Verschaeve (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ public domain)
February 12, 2014, 2:36 pm
EU president removes Nazi sympathizer’s poem from site
After Belgian Jews protest, Herman Van Rompuy claims Cyriel Verschaeve’s ‘The Seagull’ was mother-in-law’s favorite work
By Lazar Berman
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