This weekend (Sunday, 23 February), was the day of the yearly carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst.
For the Jewish community, this day approached with a lot of anxiety. In the 2019 edition, a float depicting exaggerated images of Orthodox Jews, with enlarged hooked noses, bags of money and surrounded by rats caused international outrage, and resulted in the delisting of the Aalst festival from Unesco's intangible heritage list – a first in ...
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Already a member? LoginAlina Bricman is director of EU Affairs for the Jewish advocacy organisation B’nai B’rith.
Alina Bricman is director of EU Affairs for the Jewish advocacy organisation B’nai B’rith.