Watchdog group says anti-Semitism skyrocketing in Belgium

by Cnaan Liphshiz
Haaretz
May 10, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1687/watchdog-group-says-anti-semitism-skyrocketing-in

Excerpt:

Anti-Semitic attacks have skyrocketed in Belgium in 2009, according to a local government watchdog. The agency's director compared the hike to "the anti-Muslim hate campaign after 9/11."

The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism last week said that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the first four months of 2009 has equaled the number of such incidents recorded in the whole of 2008.

According to Jozef De Witte, director of the government agency, which is under the direct responsibility of Belgium's prime minister, the hike owes to the Middle East conflict between Israel and some of its enemies.

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