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Wed Jul 16, 2014, 03:06 AM Jul 2014

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 Saturday’s protest in the capital of Belgium’s Flemish region, where one of the speakers used a loudspeaker to chant a call in Arabic that means “slaughter the Jews.”

The demonstration against Israel’s 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 organization’s president, Joel Rubinfeld, said in a statement.


Read more: http://forward.com/articles/202102/belgium-rally-calls-for-slaughter-of-jews/#ixzz37c33gxUC


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B...b..but...it is just "criticism" of Israel.

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what a disgrace human beings are to the planet. n/t tired grumpy. hollysmom Jul 2014 #1
There's lots of these nowdays King_David Jul 2014 #2
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