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Will anti-Semitic lessons soon become mandatory in the Flemish schools in Belgium?
Will anti-Semitic lessons soon become mandatory in the Flemish schools in Belgium?
60 years after the deportation of Belgian Jews on the 30th of September 1943 the Flemish government is subsidizing officially a pro-Palestinian leaflet that reeks of anti-Semitism for use in Belgian schools.
“Become an anti-Semitic teacher for 5 Euro only.”
1. Introduction
This document concerns the production of a booklet, a cd-rom and an exhibition stand, by several Belgian State sponsored NGO’s. It is the culmination of more than two years of collective hysteric partisanship from these NGO’s against Israel and Israeli related people, goods etc… This collective hysteria is largely organized through funding toward their so-called humanitarian actions from both the Flemish and the Belgian governments with the taxpayer’s money. Most of these funds have been given in good faith but diverted by these NGO’s to import, by all means, the Intifada into Belgium and, by doing so, they fuel the anti-Semitism.
After an overview of the background leading to the booklet and the official support from Flemish Ministers, we provide a translation of the content to let you judge on the anti-Semitic nature of these NGO’s production. Despite the formal appeal of the King of the Belgians, they did continue to import the Middle-East conflict into Belgium by any means, as in part 3 where information is given about their anti-Semitic enterprise openly issued on the Internet.
The laxity of the Flemish authorities is exposed by their official response, if any, or the lack of reaction on these unlawful documents.
Further short analysis on the rewriting of history by the NGO’s is provided.
The annex includes parts of the original Dutch booklet or cd-rom documents that were used to back our statements as well as any other relevant information.
2. The Belgian context
From the start on of the 2nd Intifada several Belgian NGO’s decided in concert to support the irredentist aspect of the Palestinian cause. They did so mainly by slandering Zionism and Israel, to the point of asking for the abolition of Israel as a Jewish State. In this way they imported the bloody war of the Middle-East into Belgium. Since the very beginning of their campaign, their aggressive stance and anti-Jewish propaganda resulted in an ever increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents in Belgium, as unseen since the of World War II. It culminated with the burning of a doll dressed as a religious Jew during a pro-Palestinian demo...
Furthermore, several attempts have been made to introduce this collective anti-Israeli hysteria into the national education system by similar texts, but they have failed until now. If the distribution to all schools by a green Minister of the federal government has been stopped, it seems that his Cabinet has explicitly instructed not to sent these previous documents to Jewish schools marked as such!
The new texts under the format of a booklet, a cd-rom, available for a ridiculous low cost of 5 euro, and even an exhibition to rent for free, have been originated by NGO’s like 11.11.11, Pax Christi, Broederlijk delen, Vredeseilanden, Socialistische solidariteit and pseudo-historians like Lucas Catherine, archivist of the official Flemish state TV.
Other actions from these organisations, which would not be able to survive without the Millions received through the government funding, consist of the specific boycott actions against Israeli goods, demonstrations that resulted in anti-Semitic actions never known in Belgium since the end of WW II. It is clear that Belgian taxpayer’s money is hereby recycled to import the Intifada into Belgium.
Recently, a new documentation has been produced with the financial support of the Flemish Minister of Cooperation (Mieke Vogels and her successor Ludo Sannen), and by the publicity in the official paper (Klasse) of the Flemish Ministry of education and is getting its way into the schools.
Letters have been sent to Minister Sannen, to the Flemish Cabinet of education, to the Catholic education organisation, etc. meetings have taken place to avoid that incitement to hate in the multicultural Belgian society could be instilled in our youth through the education system. After more than 1 month, the Minister that sponsored this publication has failed to show any sort of reaction or self-exoneration is the only result. On the contrary, some official Flemish governmental instances glorify that anti-Semitic publication.
Recently the Flemish education authorities explicitly disapproved a political campaign organised in schools against the extreme-right party, Vlaams Blok, so proving that even the anti-Israeli teaching is unlawful for use in schools. However when it concerns anti-Semitic documents coming from left or extreme-left organisations the same laws does not seem to apply.
Other very disturbing facts have emerged in the Belgian society : today, the country is well known for having one of the most important number of anti-Semitic actions in Europe, such as synagogues attacks, physical attacks against the Great-Rabbi of Belgium, against scholars, students and Jewish families on the streets, against Jewish shops and after these anonymous acts, impunity is so high that even openly burning in public the effigy of an orthodox Jew does not create any reactions from the Flemish law inforcers.
And last but not least, the King Baudouin Foundation has given a mere 25.000 Euro to the responsible of a so-called independent mediacenter, which has propagated over the last years anti-Semitic texts and cartoons.
All these actions tend to give the impression that they could be used as an ex-ante justification of potential upcoming terror activity against the Jewish community in Belgium.
3. The anti-Semitic nature of the brochure and Cd-rom
Several statements in the brochure and CD-rom use a language and distort historical facts so as to stimulate anti-Semitic sentiments with the Flemish Youth.
As far as the history of the Middle-East region is concerned, the Jews “invade” whereas the other people “establish”.
The Shoah with its 6 Million assassinated, biggest ethnic cleansing of world history, is mentioned in a short sentence “And then comes World War II with fatal results for many European Jews” aimed at a subliminal Holocaust denial.
Neither any trace about the fact that Hadj Amin el-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, Arafat’s uncle and mentor and the leader of the Arabs in the area, actively collaborated with the Nazi regime and according to his own memoirs met Hitler personally up to 4 times before the “Endlösung” has been decided at Wannsee.
Through the whole pamphlet the Jews are marked as a people that flee and occasionally were dislodged, but the Palestinians were mainly dislodged and barely fled. The Jewish refugees of Arab countries are not even mentioned, but when they arrive in Israel, though most of them had no other choice, are immediately characterized as Zionists and presenting them as racists and ethnic cleansers. The brochure, by its historic distortions, succeeds in teaching that the victims are to be considered guilty.
According to the incriminated publication, the ‘Zionists’ constitute the overwhelming majority of the Jewish people and are described throughout the document as very well organised, well armed and over-influencial. Similar insinuations can only be found in the anti-Semitic pamphlet “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.
Other subliminal anti-Semitic language describes the Jewish people in Israel as terrorists since the beginning of the conflict, whereas Palestinians are only considered to be unsoiled resistants.
The real objectives of the PLO and other Palestinian organisations to expel the Jews out of the region, to destroy the Jewish state, etc. are smuggled away or barely mentioned “PNR distances itself from terror”, “the anti-Israel articles are taken out of the PLO charter”
Describing that the nominated Palestinian Prime Minister is “acceptable” for Israel has for the writers the explicit meaning of “corruptible”; it gives the impression that this kind of statement is even directly inspired by actual Nazi literature.
4. Other acts of anti-Semitic nature by the same organisations
A year ago Pax Christi has put forward on the 11.11.11 website the suicide attacks were only a 'fait divers'. (annex n° XXX)
Only after this has been considered in the newspapers as reprehensible by Cardinal Danneels the text has been smuggled away without even the least excuse from the management; only an explanation saying the author was shocked by the fact this statement was designated as reprehensible. According to such a way of thinking the 20 death including many little children and the teenagers and those heavily injured from the recent terror attacks, are undoubtedly disqualified as victims.
and the hypocrite attitude of Pax Christi:
The Oxfam movement calls for a boycott of Israeli products and even indicates on its Internet site
http://www.11.be/palestina/slik.htm the following Dutch-spoken statement:
(look under treated agriculture products): Een aantal verwerkte landbouwproducten zijn hier toch te vinden, soms in de gewone winkels van grootwarenhuizen (vb Sabra Salads), soms enkel in die vestigingen waar Joodse klanten in de buurt wonen
Which means words to words in English : A number of treated agricultural products although are around here, sometimes in ordinary shops of supermarkets (eg Sabra Salads), sometimes only in those branches where Jewish customers are living in the neighbourhood.
Oxfam International has publicly apologized, although explaining that the boycott concerned all Israeli products.
Anyway, the 11.11.11 “charity” group called several times for demonstrations, of which the one in Antwerp with Mr Jahjah's AEL, where not only Jewish shops have been attacked in a pure pogrom style, but also a scarecrow dressed up as an orthodox Jew was burned in public.
Our country didn't witness such an anti-Semitic demonstration since 1945!
where one can read :
"The Platform for a righteous peace in Palestine, the organiser of the manifestation,
...
Meanwhile a doll which was the symbol for an orthodox Jew has been burned hanging at a basketball pole."
The subscribers of this platform are on:
http://ppa.park.be/ppa/ondertekenaars.htm en
and clearly show: 11.11.11., CODIP, Geneeskunde voor de Derde Wereld,
Oxfam Wereldwinkels, Vlaams Palestina Comité
who also all are the undertakers of the booklet and the CD-Rom
E-mail received from Oxfam International regarding their boycott of Israeli products
From: "Info"
Date: Tue Aug 26, 2003 5:14:27 PM Europe/Paris
Subject: RE:
Return-Path:
Received: from icarus.OxfamAmerica.org (unknown [63.251.133.20]) by
I am writing in response to your concern about the connection of Oxfam Belgium to a civil society movement to promote a boycott of selected products grown in the West Bank and Gaza. As you know, Oxfam Belgium (Oxfam-Solidarité), an independent Oxfam affiliate of the Oxfam International confederation chose to join this campaign.
In reviewing this matter, the leadership of Oxfam International felt that the core messages of the Belgian campaign were unclear and inappropriate. Oxfam regrets our association with these messages and images and sincerely apologizes for any offence caused. We would like to underline that this was not an Oxfam International campaign or position. To be explicit, Oxfam International does not support a public campaign for a boycott of Israeli produce.
I'm pleased to report that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has accepted our apology and our actions. You might visit their website to see their full statement and Oxfam's as well. I think you will agree that Oxfam is an organization that recognizes when it gets things wrong, and I hope this reassures you about our mission and values.
Oxfam International works with partners on both sides of the conflict; we continue to call for an end to violence and of the occupation of the Palestinian Territories, and have consistently condemned Palestinian acts of terror.
Melanie
Melanie Moore
National Outreach Program Assistant
Oxfam America
26 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-728-2464 or 1-800-77-OXFAM ext. 464
60 years after the deportation of Belgian Jews on the 30th of September 1943 the Flemish government is subsidizing officially a pro-Palestinian leaflet that reeks of anti-Semitism for use in Belgian schools.
“Become an anti-Semitic teacher for 5 Euro only.”
1. Introduction
This document concerns the production of a booklet, a cd-rom and an exhibition stand, by several Belgian State sponsored NGO’s. It is the culmination of more than two years of collective hysteric partisanship from these NGO’s against Israel and Israeli related people, goods etc… This collective hysteria is largely organized through funding toward their so-called humanitarian actions from both the Flemish and the Belgian governments with the taxpayer’s money. Most of these funds have been given in good faith but diverted by these NGO’s to import, by all means, the Intifada into Belgium and, by doing so, they fuel the anti-Semitism.
After an overview of the background leading to the booklet and the official support from Flemish Ministers, we provide a translation of the content to let you judge on the anti-Semitic nature of these NGO’s production. Despite the formal appeal of the King of the Belgians, they did continue to import the Middle-East conflict into Belgium by any means, as in part 3 where information is given about their anti-Semitic enterprise openly issued on the Internet.
The laxity of the Flemish authorities is exposed by their official response, if any, or the lack of reaction on these unlawful documents.
Further short analysis on the rewriting of history by the NGO’s is provided.
The annex includes parts of the original Dutch booklet or cd-rom documents that were used to back our statements as well as any other relevant information.
2. The Belgian context
From the start on of the 2nd Intifada several Belgian NGO’s decided in concert to support the irredentist aspect of the Palestinian cause. They did so mainly by slandering Zionism and Israel, to the point of asking for the abolition of Israel as a Jewish State. In this way they imported the bloody war of the Middle-East into Belgium. Since the very beginning of their campaign, their aggressive stance and anti-Jewish propaganda resulted in an ever increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents in Belgium, as unseen since the of World War II. It culminated with the burning of a doll dressed as a religious Jew during a pro-Palestinian demo...
Furthermore, several attempts have been made to introduce this collective anti-Israeli hysteria into the national education system by similar texts, but they have failed until now. If the distribution to all schools by a green Minister of the federal government has been stopped, it seems that his Cabinet has explicitly instructed not to sent these previous documents to Jewish schools marked as such!
The new texts under the format of a booklet, a cd-rom, available for a ridiculous low cost of 5 euro, and even an exhibition to rent for free, have been originated by NGO’s like 11.11.11, Pax Christi, Broederlijk delen, Vredeseilanden, Socialistische solidariteit and pseudo-historians like Lucas Catherine, archivist of the official Flemish state TV.
Other actions from these organisations, which would not be able to survive without the Millions received through the government funding, consist of the specific boycott actions against Israeli goods, demonstrations that resulted in anti-Semitic actions never known in Belgium since the end of WW II. It is clear that Belgian taxpayer’s money is hereby recycled to import the Intifada into Belgium.
Recently, a new documentation has been produced with the financial support of the Flemish Minister of Cooperation (Mieke Vogels and her successor Ludo Sannen), and by the publicity in the official paper (Klasse) of the Flemish Ministry of education and is getting its way into the schools.
Letters have been sent to Minister Sannen, to the Flemish Cabinet of education, to the Catholic education organisation, etc. meetings have taken place to avoid that incitement to hate in the multicultural Belgian society could be instilled in our youth through the education system. After more than 1 month, the Minister that sponsored this publication has failed to show any sort of reaction or self-exoneration is the only result. On the contrary, some official Flemish governmental instances glorify that anti-Semitic publication.
Recently the Flemish education authorities explicitly disapproved a political campaign organised in schools against the extreme-right party, Vlaams Blok, so proving that even the anti-Israeli teaching is unlawful for use in schools. However when it concerns anti-Semitic documents coming from left or extreme-left organisations the same laws does not seem to apply.
Other very disturbing facts have emerged in the Belgian society : today, the country is well known for having one of the most important number of anti-Semitic actions in Europe, such as synagogues attacks, physical attacks against the Great-Rabbi of Belgium, against scholars, students and Jewish families on the streets, against Jewish shops and after these anonymous acts, impunity is so high that even openly burning in public the effigy of an orthodox Jew does not create any reactions from the Flemish law inforcers.
And last but not least, the King Baudouin Foundation has given a mere 25.000 Euro to the responsible of a so-called independent mediacenter, which has propagated over the last years anti-Semitic texts and cartoons.
All these actions tend to give the impression that they could be used as an ex-ante justification of potential upcoming terror activity against the Jewish community in Belgium.
3. The anti-Semitic nature of the brochure and Cd-rom
Several statements in the brochure and CD-rom use a language and distort historical facts so as to stimulate anti-Semitic sentiments with the Flemish Youth.
As far as the history of the Middle-East region is concerned, the Jews “invade” whereas the other people “establish”.
The Shoah with its 6 Million assassinated, biggest ethnic cleansing of world history, is mentioned in a short sentence “And then comes World War II with fatal results for many European Jews” aimed at a subliminal Holocaust denial.
Neither any trace about the fact that Hadj Amin el-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, Arafat’s uncle and mentor and the leader of the Arabs in the area, actively collaborated with the Nazi regime and according to his own memoirs met Hitler personally up to 4 times before the “Endlösung” has been decided at Wannsee.
Through the whole pamphlet the Jews are marked as a people that flee and occasionally were dislodged, but the Palestinians were mainly dislodged and barely fled. The Jewish refugees of Arab countries are not even mentioned, but when they arrive in Israel, though most of them had no other choice, are immediately characterized as Zionists and presenting them as racists and ethnic cleansers. The brochure, by its historic distortions, succeeds in teaching that the victims are to be considered guilty.
According to the incriminated publication, the ‘Zionists’ constitute the overwhelming majority of the Jewish people and are described throughout the document as very well organised, well armed and over-influencial. Similar insinuations can only be found in the anti-Semitic pamphlet “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.
Other subliminal anti-Semitic language describes the Jewish people in Israel as terrorists since the beginning of the conflict, whereas Palestinians are only considered to be unsoiled resistants.
The real objectives of the PLO and other Palestinian organisations to expel the Jews out of the region, to destroy the Jewish state, etc. are smuggled away or barely mentioned “PNR distances itself from terror”, “the anti-Israel articles are taken out of the PLO charter”
Describing that the nominated Palestinian Prime Minister is “acceptable” for Israel has for the writers the explicit meaning of “corruptible”; it gives the impression that this kind of statement is even directly inspired by actual Nazi literature.
4. Other acts of anti-Semitic nature by the same organisations
A year ago Pax Christi has put forward on the 11.11.11 website the suicide attacks were only a 'fait divers'. (annex n° XXX)
Only after this has been considered in the newspapers as reprehensible by Cardinal Danneels the text has been smuggled away without even the least excuse from the management; only an explanation saying the author was shocked by the fact this statement was designated as reprehensible. According to such a way of thinking the 20 death including many little children and the teenagers and those heavily injured from the recent terror attacks, are undoubtedly disqualified as victims.
and the hypocrite attitude of Pax Christi:
The Oxfam movement calls for a boycott of Israeli products and even indicates on its Internet site
http://www.11.be/palestina/slik.htm the following Dutch-spoken statement:
(look under treated agriculture products): Een aantal verwerkte landbouwproducten zijn hier toch te vinden, soms in de gewone winkels van grootwarenhuizen (vb Sabra Salads), soms enkel in die vestigingen waar Joodse klanten in de buurt wonen
Which means words to words in English : A number of treated agricultural products although are around here, sometimes in ordinary shops of supermarkets (eg Sabra Salads), sometimes only in those branches where Jewish customers are living in the neighbourhood.
Oxfam International has publicly apologized, although explaining that the boycott concerned all Israeli products.
Anyway, the 11.11.11 “charity” group called several times for demonstrations, of which the one in Antwerp with Mr Jahjah's AEL, where not only Jewish shops have been attacked in a pure pogrom style, but also a scarecrow dressed up as an orthodox Jew was burned in public.
Our country didn't witness such an anti-Semitic demonstration since 1945!
where one can read :
"The Platform for a righteous peace in Palestine, the organiser of the manifestation,
...
Meanwhile a doll which was the symbol for an orthodox Jew has been burned hanging at a basketball pole."
The subscribers of this platform are on:
http://ppa.park.be/ppa/ondertekenaars.htm en
and clearly show: 11.11.11., CODIP, Geneeskunde voor de Derde Wereld,
Oxfam Wereldwinkels, Vlaams Palestina Comité
who also all are the undertakers of the booklet and the CD-Rom
E-mail received from Oxfam International regarding their boycott of Israeli products
From: "Info"
Date: Tue Aug 26, 2003 5:14:27 PM Europe/Paris
Subject: RE:
Return-Path:
Received: from icarus.OxfamAmerica.org (unknown [63.251.133.20]) by
I am writing in response to your concern about the connection of Oxfam Belgium to a civil society movement to promote a boycott of selected products grown in the West Bank and Gaza. As you know, Oxfam Belgium (Oxfam-Solidarité), an independent Oxfam affiliate of the Oxfam International confederation chose to join this campaign.
In reviewing this matter, the leadership of Oxfam International felt that the core messages of the Belgian campaign were unclear and inappropriate. Oxfam regrets our association with these messages and images and sincerely apologizes for any offence caused. We would like to underline that this was not an Oxfam International campaign or position. To be explicit, Oxfam International does not support a public campaign for a boycott of Israeli produce.
I'm pleased to report that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has accepted our apology and our actions. You might visit their website to see their full statement and Oxfam's as well. I think you will agree that Oxfam is an organization that recognizes when it gets things wrong, and I hope this reassures you about our mission and values.
Oxfam International works with partners on both sides of the conflict; we continue to call for an end to violence and of the occupation of the Palestinian Territories, and have consistently condemned Palestinian acts of terror.
Melanie
Melanie Moore
National Outreach Program Assistant
Oxfam America
26 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-728-2464 or 1-800-77-OXFAM ext. 464
and I was afraid there was a third part coming up when I realised panag was posting 
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