Belgian prime minister says Jewish caricatures at Aalst carnival 'damage' the country
Source: JTA
Belgium’s prime minister said that some caricatures of Jews at the annual Aalst parade “damage” the country’s values and reputation.
In a statement Sunday, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes, who is Jewish, did not say which caricatures she took issue with at the Aalst Carnival, which is held each year in this city 10 miles west of Brussels. But her statement was the harshest rebuke yet by Belgium’s highest elected official of the Aalst Carnival, which has for years drawn controversy for its ridicule of ethnic minorities, including Jews.
This year’s procession included costumes of haredi Jews with ant abdomens and legs. The 12 men wearing those suits set up a display called “complain ant,” a phrase that in Dutch resembles the word for the Western Wall. They wore stickers reading “obey” on their lapels.
Another group wore haredi-style suits and plastic hooked noses and waved a sign of “regulations” that included one reading: “Do not tell the truth about Jews.” Several dozen spectators also wore haredi suits with fake sidelocks.
Read more: https://www.jta.org/2020/02/23/global/belgian-prime-minister-says-jewish-caricatures-at-aalst-carnival-damage-the-country
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The Aalst carnival is at it again with antisemitic imagery. One of the stickers on the fake Western Wall says "you would cry too if they cut your penis."
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See also: https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Aalst-parade-features-cross-dressing-hassids-with-big-noses-618501
Jews as ants! Classy!
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Horrible.
