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Aalst carnival
Aalst mayor Christoph D'Haese (R) and a Jewish caricature pictured during the yearly carnival parade in the streets of Aalst, Sunday 23 February 2020, starting on Sunday with the so-called Zondagsstoet.
March 6, 2020, 8:19 am
Progressively Speaking: Carnivals with Nazi floats, caricatures are antisemitic
Liberal Judaism's Rabbi Charley Baginsky reflects on public antisemitic episodes including people dressed as Jews and Holocaust imagery
By Rabbi Charley Baginksy
Sophie Wilmès (Wikipedia/Author: Damien Caumiant. Source: Sophie Wilmès)
February 24, 2020, 11:46 am
Belgian prime minister says Jewish caricatures at carnival ‘damage’ the country
Her criticism was the harshest rebuke yet by Belgium’s highest elected official of the Aalst Carnival which included costumes of Charedi Jews with ant abdomens
By JTA
A carnival float, which was paraded through the centre of a Belgian city, is guilty of Nazi-style antisemitism. (Credit: Pen News)
December 15, 2019, 10:23 am
UNESCO drops Belgian parade from heritage list over antisemitism charges
United Nations body scrapped the Aalst festival over floats featuring effigies of grinning Jews holding money
By JTA
A carnival float which was paraded through the centre of a Belgian city last year (Credit: Pen News)
October 27, 2019, 3:16 pm
Belgian parade’s Jewish float ruled unintentionally antisemitic
Inter-Federal Equal Opportunities Center says the creator of the Aalst float should be cleared of criminal responsibility but urges them to show more 'empathy'
By JTA
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