Melech 9,900 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 A Belgian watchdog on anti-Semitism warned that the country’s public schools are becoming “Jew-free†zones because of harassment. Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, sounded the alarm in an interview for the weekly Le Vif/L’Express, which was published earlier this month and which revealed that the only Jewish student of the Emile Bockstael high school left it following harassment and threats that she received from classmates after she posted a picture of an Israeli flag on Facebook. The school “has become Judenfrei, there are no more Jewish students there,†Rubinfeld said, using the German-language term that the Nazis applied to locales which had been rendered “free of Jews.†According to the weekly, the school’s last Jewish pupil, identified only as Sarah, posted a picture of herself holding the Belgian flag alongside the Israeli one in summer. She received 288 abusive comments, including threats, on Facebook, also by classmates and other pupils she did not know. In September, she began attending one of the Brussels region’s three major Jewish schools but the harassments continued. On Sept. 10, she received a photo of a former classmate performing a Nazi salute, telling her she is missed. Her parents, who have four children, pulled her two older brothers, who are twins, from public schools for similar reasons, the weekly reported. Only their eldest born was able to matriculate in one. Last week, Menachem Margolin, an Israel-born rabbi who runs European Jewish Association lobby group in Brussels, said certain members of European Jewish communities should be permitted to carry firearms to defend themselves against anti-Semitic attacks like the Jan. 7 slaying of four at a kosher supermarket near Paris. On Monday, the CCOJB umbrella group of French-speaking Belgian Jews distanced itself from his call, saying in a statement that it “can only be explained by ignorance and panic.†http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.638091 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 117,521 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Mess, Belgium! :awkney: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ˢᵖᵉᵉᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ʷᵉⁱᵍʰᵗ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SychosSoChic 9,995 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 What The Literal **** Belgium :excuseme: Life ain't Hollywood for any one of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaybeKermit 5,216 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I literally don't know why da **** people still harrass Jews? Like... why? They are humans too? Just leave eachother alone? I really get upset whenever I think about what happened to them (and many others) during World War II... live and let live. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigmatica 0 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 It's Israel's fault. Each time Israel attacks Gaza , there is a rise in anti-semitism. Last July/August , I saw lots of people online wishing Hitler came back and "made the ovens ready " Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 It's Israel's fault. Each time Israel attacks Gaza , there is a rise in anti-semitism. Last July/August , I saw lots of people online wishing Hitler came back and "made the ovens ready " Israels fault? It's not Israelis that randomly stabs 16 innocents Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Dey 1,847 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 that's ridiculous. First of all the reason why there are no jews in our schools is that almost all of our public schools are christian. that's why we built jewish schools and even schools for other religions. But thats no excuse for the harassment. Harassment should be stopped in every way! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigmatica 0 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Israels fault? It's not Israelis that randomly stabs 16 innocents I was trying to explain the rise of antisemitism based on my perceptions. Just like the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack sparked Islamophobia, so do Isreal's violent actions spark antisemitism and hate towards innocent jews. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkwolf 590 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I don't know about Belgium, but here in France 90% of jewish people choose to send their children to Jewish private schools, and schools here are secular. Of course antisemitism is a reality, but this article about "Jew-free zones" might not be very accurate. and really, Jews should be permitted to carry guns Last week, Menachem Margolin, an Israel-born rabbi who runs European Jewish Association lobby group in Brussels, said certain members of European Jewish communities should be permitted to carry firearms to defend themselves against anti-Semitic attacks like the Jan. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 I don't know about Belgium, but here in France 90% of jewish people choose to send their children to Jewish private schools, and schools here are secular. Of course antisemitism is a reality, but this article about "Jew-free zones" might not be very accurate. and really, Jews should be permitted to carry guns Did you even read the article? It has a reason because they send their kids to jewish schools. Because of harrasements Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,767 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 that's ridiculous. First of all the reason why there are no jews in our schools is that almost all of our public schools are christian. that's why we built jewish schools and even schools for other religions. But thats no excuse for the harassment. Harassment should be stopped in every way! Public schools have a religion there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Public schools have a religion there? Normally not, at least not in Germany. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic 49,376 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Normally not, at least not in Germany. Except in Bavaria, where everything is devoutly Christian tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Except in Bavaria, where everything is devoutly Christian tbh Well Bavaria Germanys Texas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Dey 1,847 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Public schools have a religion there? they're just called catholic because they were originally run by nuns and priests now nobody cares about that anymore. Except for people who strictly have a different religion because they think they need to learn the "right" religion, while the catholic schools have nothing to do with nuns and god anymore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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