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Israel reprimands Belgium again for inviting terror-related NGO to UNSC
[Jpost] The Foreign Ministry also criticized the Belgian government’s "negligence" in handling the Carnival in Aalst, during which antisemitic floats were displayed in a parade.The Foreign Ministry summoned Belgium’s Deputy Ambassador Pascal Buffin to Jerusalem for the second time in a week on Tuesday, to protest his country’s invitation to an anti-Israel NGO with ties to the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) to address the UN Security Council. Anna Azari, the head of the Europe  ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...an Section of the Foreign Ministry, reprimanded Buffin and called on Belgium to rescind the invitation and stop taking anti-Israel steps in the UNSC. Azari also expressed surprise that Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Emmanual Nahshon was reprimanded by the Belgian Foreign Ministry because of news reports about Israel’s criticism of Belgium. "The Belgians cannot expect us to stay quiet when they are taking advantage of being temporary presidents of the UNSC to hurt Israel," she said. DCI-P calls itself an organization defending the human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... of Paleostinian children. It alleges that Israel is committing war crimes and it supports the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement. It shares several leading figures with the PFLP, a designated terrorist group in the US, EU, Canada and Israel, to the extent that Citibank and the Arab Bank have stopped providing banking services to the NGO. Parker is the driving force behind pro-BDS legislation introduced in the US by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota), the think tank NGO Monitor reported. Last January, in his capacity as an adjunct professor at the CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, Parker filed an anti-Israel submission to the UN, replete with false statements and whitewashing of terrorist groups like Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. CUNY subsequently launched an investigation into the law school’s partnership with DCI-P. Azari also criticized the Belgian government’s "negligence" in handling the Carnival in Aalst, during which antisemitic floats were displayed in a parade. The carnival is set for the day before the UNSC meeting. She said Israel expects Belgium’s leadership to "clearly condemn the antisemitic event." The Aalst carnival lost its place on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in late 2019 after the Belgian city's mayor refused to remove antisemitic imagery from the parade. Last year, one of its floats featured oversized figures of Jews in hassidic garb, with rats on their shoulders, holding money. In 2013, JTA reported, carnival revelers in Nazi uniforms held canisters labeled "Zyklon B" while walking with other participants dressed as concentration camp prisoners. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-02-12 |
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