In videos that circulated in anti-Israel accounts on social media, travelers on benches scrolled their phones, largely indifferent to the jarring wall of graffiti behind them.
The Flanders Festival Ghent announced earlier this week that it was scrapping the German orchestra’s concert, citing Shani’s refusal to distance himself from Israel’s government amid the war in Gaza.
Belgium will also impose 12 'firm sanctions' on Israel, including a ban on importing products from Judea and Samaria and a review of public procurement policies with Israeli companies.
The pattern has raised concerns among Jewish travelers about discrimination in Belgian vacation destinations, where religious observance, such as communal prayers, has drawn unwanted attention from neighbors and property owners.
Dozens of Iran-backed terrorist plots against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe were uncovered in recent months, many of which used local criminal rings.
As Belgium, Norway, and Spain contemplate recognizing a 'Palestinian State,' legal complexities and geopolitical consequences underscore the urgency of a more considered approach
'The decision to label the products harms Israelis and Palestinians and is out of step with the government of Israel’s policy that is focused on improving the lives of Palestinians,' Israel's foreign ministry said.
Law- and business-school graduate Ari Epstein will promote bilateral relations between Hungary and Belgium and facilitate engagement on economic, commercial and cultural levels.
'These slogans have nothing to do with freedom of speech. They are calls for hatred. It is shameful and worrying,' said Jewish community leader Yohan Benizri.
A Catholic NGO is set to give an award to a leading anti-Israel activist at the site of a transit camp from which Jews were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The actress cancelled her participation in a panel after she discovered involvement by Christoph D’Haese, who oversees an anti-Semitic Belgian 'carnival.'
Ahead of a Belgian parade with a history of openly anti-Semitic displays, organizers published a slew of anti-Semitic caricatures to promote the 'carnival' this year.
One of the most vulgar public displays of anti-Semitism in recent memory occurred at a massive parade that UNESCO previously honored on its list of 'intangible world heritage' assets.
Belgium publicly slaps the PA with one hand over its glorification of terrorists but caresses it with the other, upgrading its diplomatic status in Brussels.
The speaker of the Israeli parliament "looks forward to the day when heads of parliaments from Arab countries will no longer avoid me and we will be able to cooperate."
French police and anti-terrorism investigators have been alerted to the possibility that small groups of terrorists have left Syria for France and Belgium with plans to stage terror attacks.
Zakia Belkhiri, a 22-year-old Muslim woman from Belgium whose picture went viral after she posed in front of anti-Islam protesters, is under fire for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic posts she made in 2012 and 2014 on her Facebook and Twitter pages.