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Palestinism, Electoral Calculations, Tribalization… The Lessons of an Explosive Report on Belgium, Now a 'Laboratory' of Antisemitism
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The Jonathas Institute, a center for the study of antisemitism, delivers for the first time a staggering assessment of Belgian society.
Has Belgium been under a kind of omerta until now? That's the question raised by the Jonathas Institute, a Belgian research center, in its explosive report on antisemitism, supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium's three federated communities. Reviewed by Le Figaro, this 76-page analysis, based in part on an Ipsos poll, paints a disturbing picture of a deeply divided society — one that is, in some respects, more antisemitic than France.
'In a context marked by a resurgence of antisemitic acts and rhetoric, surveying Belgians about their perceptions of Jews seemed obvious. And yet, no public, media, academic, or civil society actor has undertaken such a large-scale study in recent memory,' the report notes. The institute is led by Joël Kotek, an emeritus university professor and former lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, and Joël Amar, an advisor to the presidents of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF).
The authors observe that 'in contrast, studies…
