[5] In October 2013, Isi Leibler, the former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, reported on the alarming increase in the levels of antisemitism in Belgium.
[8][9] Two days later, a young Muslim man entered the CCU (Jewish Cultural Center) while an event was taking place and shouted racist slurs.
[12] Belgian politician Hassan Aarab, running for municipal office in Antwerp on the Christian Democratic and Flemish list, publicly apologized for antisemitic statements.
[13] In July 2014, a doctor refused to care for Holocaust survivor Bertha Klein, telling her son "Send her to Gaza for a few hours, then she will get rid of the pain.
"[26] In January 2019, Flanders banned the kosher and halal slaughter of animals (schechita), which Jewish and Muslim community leaders denounced as racism and a violation of their freedom of religion.
The float in the town of Aalst, 25 km (15 miles) from the European Parliament, featured grinning figures of Orthodox Jews standing on large piles of money.
"[30] In August 2019, Dimitri Verhulst wrote in an op-ed in the newspaper De Morgen that "being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an ugly nose", a misquote from French singer Serge Gainsbourg.
[45] In the same month, the European Jewish Congress found in a survey that[46] Whereas, in July 2024, EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) found in a survey that[47][48] In August 2024, Belgian novelist Herman Brusselmans published a controversial column in Dutch-language magazine Humo in relation to rising tension from the Gaza War, where he threatened, "I want to ram a sharp knife through the throat of every Jew I meet".
[49][50] The column was condemned by the head of the Brussels office of B'nai B'rith International as a "blatant incitement to violence against Jews, in one of Belgium's largest magazines.
[52][53][54][55][56][57][58] In September 2024, Belgium’s federal equality agency reported a 1,000% increase in antisemitic incidents in the two months following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War when compared to similar periods in previous years.
[59] In the wake of these staggering statistics, the International Movement for Peace and Coexistence (IMPAC) raised concerns about issues of bias regarding how the Palestinian-Israel conflict is presented in Belgian schools.