Belgium - Possible Terror attack avoided in Busiest shopping street of Antwerp.

Actie van Dovo op de Kaaien in Antwerpen #antwerpen pic.twitter.com/QjAWLduQ5t

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Belgium - Possible Terror attack avoided in Busiest shopping street of Antwerp.(Standard) [GoogleTranslated].

Man arrested after he drove at high speed over the Meir.

Apparently Soldiers patrolling spotted the suspect vehicle, when trying to check the car the driver took off at high speed.

Around 11 pm a man was driving a high-speed vehicle over the Meir in which people had to hurry to avoid the vehicle, said police chief Serge Muyters. police noticed the vehicle and tried to stop it.

The driver ignored the control, drove through the red traffic light at the Meirbrug towards the quays. The rapid response team was called. At St. Michael's Quay, at the height of the Fortune Street, the vehicle and the driver was intercepted.

A perimeter was established around the suspicious car and the bomb squad came . IT's not said If anything suspicious was found in the car, 

The suspect, a man of North African origin, has been arrested. The federal judicial police department terrorism has taken over the investigation. "Possibly we may have avoided worse," said Mayor Bart De Wever.

Vigilance is raised in Antwerp. "This means, additional & Increased policing in areas with lots of people or other special places." 

PT - Suspect reportedly Frenchman of Tunisian descent - firearm, jerrycan with fuel & military fatigue found in car https://t.co/dKO0M4Kz6z

— Guy Van Vlierden (@GuyVanVlierden) March 23, 2017

#Antwerp terror suspect Mohamed R., born 1977 French national registred in France. Belgian fed justice dep. https://t.co/Qy5nvnHVvd

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BREAKING: French President Francois Hollande confirms #Antwerp attack appeared to involve French national. (@Reuters)

— Jack Moore (@JFXM) March 23, 2017

#Breaking: Rifle, bladed weapons found in #Antwerp car
Read more : https://t.co/iHhpSApe4r

— The Peninsula (@PeninsulaQatar) March 23, 2017

French citizen arrested after trying to hit the crowd at #Antwerp | #Belgium - lesoir.be https://t.co/Qy5nvnHVvd … via @lesoir

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) March 23, 2017

In #Antwerp the red Citroen has been removed by police after a man tried hitting pedestrians in the city centre. Bomb squad found substances pic.twitter.com/BlN7gcl7PS

— Dan Johnson (@DanJohnsonNews) March 23, 2017

Belgium - Antwerp Jewish parents demand teacher’s ouster over apparent anti-Semitic Facebook post

“They are mega-racists themselves,” “The most difficult and unworldly people I know,”

Belgium - Antwerp Jewish parents demand teacher’s ouster over apparent anti-Semitic Facebook post. (Jta).

The parents association of a Jewish school in Antwerp demanded management fire a teacher who made an apparent anti-Semitic statement on Facebook.

The parents made the demand in a letter they wrote earlier this week to Moshe Mund, principal of the Jesode Hatora – Beth Jacob school in Antwerp, the Belgian Jewish monthly and news website Joods Actueel reported Sunday.

In the letter, the parents requested Mund fire Nathalie van Parys, a teacher at the school, who wrote on her Facebook account about parents of children attending the publicly-funded Jewish school.

“They are mega-racists themselves,” she wrote in commenting about an article that concerned the $1,000 that parents at her school and others are required to pay annually for security.

In her Flemish-language post, van Parys used the word “volk,” which means ethnicity, nation or people. “The most difficult and unworldly people I know,” she wrote.

In its letter, the parents association wrote: “The parents reacted with shock and frustration to this display of intolerance and hate. Such demeaning, anti-Semitic remarks are unacceptable in a democracy. That these statements came from faculty is just unbelievable.”

The parents asked Mund to “apply sanctions” against the teacher, adding: “For us, it is unacceptable that she teach.”

Jewish public schools in Antwerp – home to a predominantly Orthodox community of 18,000 — employ a secular staff, which is mostly non-Jewish and is entrusted with teaching pupils mandatory subjects according to the Belgian federal educational requirements and that of the Flemish Region. 

These schools, where boys and girls are taught separately, also have a Jewish staff that teaches children Jewish studies and Hebrew in accordance with Orthodox religious laws.

Video - Belgian Rally Calls for 'Slaughter' of Jews, Anti-Semitic Hatred broadcast in Antwerp.

Belgian Rally Calls for 'Slaughter' of Jews, Anti-Semitic Hatred broadcast in Antwerp. HT: Forward.

Dozens of men at an anti-Israel demonstration in Antwerp shouted slogans about slaughtering Jews.

Approximately 500 people attended Saturday’s protest in the capital of Belgium’s Flemish region, where one of the speakers used a loudspeaker to chant a call in Arabic that means “slaughter the Jews.”

The demonstration against Israel’s assault on Hamas in Gaza happened amid a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe that coincided with the Israeli actions, and one day before a similar demonstration in Paris escalated into what European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor called an “attempted lynch” outside a local synagogue.

The Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism filed a complaint for incitement to violence against participants and organizers of the Antwerp demonstration, dozens of whom were recorded making the calls.

“International politics cannot serve as a pretext for incitement to anti-Semitic hatred,” the organization’s president, Joel Rubinfeld, said in a statement.

It also condemned the presence at the demonstration of three local politicians: Karim Bachar of the Flemish Socialist Party; Ikrame Kastit of the Flemish Green Party; and Mohamed Chebaa of Labor.

The protesters also called out “Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning,” referencing a seventh-century slaughter against Jews in Saudi Arabia.

Earlier this month, the same call was heard at a demonstration in The Hague in favor of the ISIS Sunni militia in Syria and Iraq. The protest was held six days before Israel launched its military operation in Gaza.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center in a letter to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte protested that the demonstration was allowed to take place.

“Unless Jihadism in your country is totally quashed, Dutch returnees from their Syrian baptism of fire and Jihadist websites at home will menace Jewish, Muslim and all other citizens of the Netherlands,” wrote Shimon Samuels, the center’s international relations director.

In Paris, approximately 200 Jews were besieged on Sunday inside the synagogue by dozens of young men who confronted police and Jewish guards outside in what turned into a street brawl before police reinforcements dispersed the crowd.

The CRIF umbrella group of Jewish organizations and communities appealed to French President Francois Hollande to temporarily ban “pro-Hamas protests” for fear they would escalate into similar attacks.


On the pro-Palestine Rally Saturday in Borgerhout chanted hundreds of attendees in the Arab anti-Jewish slogans with references to massacres and expulsion of Jews ( see the video here from minute 6:50 ).Notice the Turkish and Palestinian flags in the Crowd!

"This has nothing to do with peaceful protest against Israel, nor a pro-Palestinian stance," says editor of Jewish News, Michael Freilich in the next reaction.

I therefore ask that the mayor of Antwerp, a police investigation, and recommends that the leaders of these racist slogans are arrested. We can not import the conflict in our country, we can not do that with the Syrian conflict, even though there were not 160 but 160 000 deaths.

I earnestly recommends that the councilors of Green, SP.a and WPB present + to distance themselves from at least this infamous part of the event.

Two months after the attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium can not be anti-Semitic hate slogans against the Jewish community are heard in broad daylight in Antwerp. Again, the Jewish community here is separate from the conflict in the Middle East, and we need to import them to go in our streets. "

Video - Belgium - Turkish owned shop in Antwerp 'Does not sell to Jews' out of protest.

Video - Belgium - Turkish owned shop in Antwerp 'Does not sell to Jews' out of protest.HT :JoodsActueel.


A Jewish woman from Antwerp yesterday claims to be the victim of racism at the Antwerp De Keyserlei. 

BH testified to our editorial about the incident. "When I went to pay at the cash register for a few things I was told:" We currently do not sell to Jews protest ".

What kind of protest, or for which the store would protest was not being said.

The young Jewish woman, a mother of four, left the store shocked. Today she explained to the police complaint before the incident. "This is clearly racially motivated and can not be tolerated," she explained.

"I respect everyone and ask that everyone respects me. This case is reminiscent of what my grandfather arrived in Antwerp, 70 years ago. "

The owner of the store meanwhile denies that he does not sell to Jews. "Instead, we have a lot of Jewish customers and buy our products to a Jew. Why should we not sell to Jews, we would only hurt ourselves thereby harm ".

Jewish News Our reporter went yesterday, after hearing the case itself to the store to assess the situation and had the following conversation with another colleague. Judge for yourself*. Meanwhile, the prosecutor investigating the case.

* At the 0.26 mark the sales woman confirms the owner said he 'Does not sell to Jews'

Antwerp, Belgium – Bus Carrying Jewish Kindergarten Children Stoned By Muslim Youths.

Antwerp, Belgium – Bus Carrying Jewish Kindergarten Children Stoned By Muslim Youths.(JUpdates).

A Jewish school bus carrying kindergarten children in Antwerp, Belgium had rocks thrown at it by Muslim teens on Sunday, local media reported.

According to a security source quoted by the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA), the children learning at Antwerp Hayder were returning from a swimming pool at the time of the attack. The gang surrounded the bus and started hurling rocks at the children seated in the bus.

None of the children were physically injured in the attack.

Police are investigating the incident. Security personnel arrived at the scene and collected surveillance footage from the area in order to identify the attackers. No arrests have been made so far.

In a letter to Belgian Interior Minister Joëlle Milquet, Simon Wiesenthal Center Director for International Relations Dr. Shimon Samuels said the stoning of the bus crossed “a new threshold in the spiraling violence against the Jews of Belgium. From the Brussels Jewish Museum to Flemish Antwerp.”

“Antwerp – a centuries old, orthodox Jewish centre at the heart of the global diamond industry – is now colloquially known as ‘Gaza,’” Samuels wrote. “Talk there is rampant in the Pelikaanstraat gem-stores of an exodus from Belgium.”

“The pogrom of the Antwerp Hayder school bus is the latest example of a perception of impunity”, he wrote. 

“The teenage perpetrators must be detained before their possible departure for the killing fields of Syria. Their school must be held responsible and Jewish school buses must be guarded just as the schools themselves.”

Video - Belgian riot police detain more than 120 protesting the anti-Islam film

                                                        Child holding Samurai sword. 

  Video - Belgian riot police detain more than 120 protesting the anti-Islam film.(HLN).Google Translate). Police detained around 120 people in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp Saturday after scuffles at a protest against an anti-Islamic film that has sparked a wave of protests, local police said. The protesters shouted anti-US slogans and praised the Prophet Mohammed. Footage aired by broadcaster RTBF also showed them burning the US flag. The demonstration, which was organised by mass text messages, degenerated into clashes with police after officers blocked the protesters from moving to a main thoroughfare.Among the protesters were apparently members of 'Sharia34Belgium'.  "We used pepper spray and batons, but no one was injured," the Antwerp police spokesman told the Het Laatste Nieuws daily. On the Drink gathered this afternoon about two hundred young people to protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence or Muslims. Initially remained in the chanting of slogans, but when a hard core would break through to the Turnhoutsebaan, grabbed the police. A leader of the Islamist group Sharia4Belgium was among those detained, according to RTBF. A concrete figure for the number of arrests is not there yet, but it would certainly be more than 120. The young people are now being systematically transferred to the detention center on the Noorderlaan. "We want that way also avoid later riots would break out. They will one by one be identified and then in the course of the evening with scantily be released," the spokesman said. Yesterday was a text message circulated calling for today at 15 hours to collect the drink in Borgerhout to protest against the anti-Islam film. "We are ready to work with our souls and hearts to fight for our beloved prophet, though the death that comes to meet us. Whoever has love for the Prophet must be present", was the message.Read and see the full story here.