Belgium Rally Calls for 'Slaughter' of Jews
Dozens of men at an anti-Israel demonstration in Antwerp shouted slogans about slaughtering Jews.
Approximately 500 people attended Saturdays protest in the capital of Belgiums Flemish region, where one of the speakers used a loudspeaker to chant a call in Arabic that means slaughter the Jews.
The demonstration against Israels assault on Hamas in Gaza happened amid a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe that coincided with the Israeli actions, and one day before a similar demonstration in Paris escalated into what European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor called an attempted lynch outside a local synagogue.
The Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism filed a complaint for incitement to violence against participants and organizers of the Antwerp demonstration, dozens of whom were recorded making the calls.
International politics cannot serve as a pretext for incitement to anti-Semitic hatred, the organizations president, Joel Rubinfeld, said in a statement.
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B...b..but...it is just "criticism" of Israel.