{"id":505,"date":"2020-02-25T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/?p=505"},"modified":"2020-02-25T20:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:26:28","slug":"belgian-parade-features-costumes-of-haredi-jews-with-insect-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/standingtogethershu\/2020\/02\/25\/belgian-parade-features-costumes-of-haredi-jews-with-insect-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian parade features costumes of haredi Jews with insect bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week it has been reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/fast-forward\/440296\/belgian-parade-features-costumes-of-haredi-jews-with-insect-bodies\/?utm_content=bufferd398c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast Forward<\/a> that a carnival in Aalst, Belgium prominently displayed horrific anti-Semitic costumes in their annual parade.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rudi Roth, a journalist for the Antwerp-based Joods Actueel Jewish paper, said the expressions of anti-Semitism in Aalst this year were more numerous and prominent than last year. He called it a \u201cbacklash effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mayor, Christophe D\u2019Haese of the right-wing New Flemish Alliance, said on Sunday that in the \u201ccontext of the carnival, these displays are not anti-Semitic.\u201d Any illegal hate speech, he added, would be dealt with by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not an anti-Semitic event,\u201d he told journalists at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Rubinfeld, the president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, condemned the displays, \u201cwhich although are the work of a minority of participants and spectators, stain the whole event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the event \u201ccertainly has anti-Semitic elements,\u201d the likes of which he said had not been on display since the end of the Nazi occupation in 1945.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/fast-forward\/440296\/belgian-parade-features-costumes-of-haredi-jews-with-insect-bodies\/?utm_content=bufferd398c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week it has been reported by Fast Forward that a carnival in Aalst, Belgium prominently displayed horrific anti-Semitic costumes in their annual parade. Rudi Roth, a journalist for the Antwerp-based Joods Actueel Jewish paper, said the expressions of anti-Semitism in Aalst this year were more numerous and prominent than last year. 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