Read more  Some time ago, I was contacted, in my capacity as a member of the RRA network (Research Network against Racism and Anti-Semitism), by my friend, Fadila Maaroufi, co-founder of the Café Laïque in Brussels, practically the only public figure in Belgium who fights radical Islam and anti-Jewish hatred and who leads this fight at the risk of her life[1].
Mrs. Maaroufi provided me with the testimonies of several Belgian Jewish families who, abandoned by institutions, ignored by the media, silenced by the political consensus, turned to her to find comfort but also a refuge within her establishment, already targeted by fundamentalists of all stripes. This would be comical if it were not tragic. (The only person who raises her voice loudly and clearly to speak openly about Muslim anti-Semitism in Belgium is a woman raised in a Muslim environment.)
I had the opportunity to directly collect the testimonies of these families. Their stories, supported by official documents from institutions that openly abandon them, do not bode well for the future of Jews in Belgium, but also for the fate of agnostics, atheists and other secularists who no longer dare to open their mouths for fear of losing their jobs, being left without income and being the target of smear campaigns on social networks by Islamists and their far-left allies. It must be added that Jews still remain the target of the Belgian far right, which seems to have renounced nothing of its Rexist traditions. (Rexism is a Catholic-inspired political movement, founded by Léon Degrelle, who allied himself with Nazism during the Second World War.)
Young Belgian Jews and School
The experts' findings are unequivocal regarding Belgian institutions and their total denial of anti-Semitism:
"In Belgium, no scientific study has been conducted on the issue of anti-Semitism in schools. It is true that this issue has been a blind spot in Belgium since 1945. The subject does not divide, it is simply passed over in silence, both by the political and media and academic worlds. The massacre that struck the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014 did not change anything, it did not provoke any particular awareness. However, politicians and journalists know that to this day only specifically Jewish places – including daycare centers, schools and youth movements – are subject to daily military surveillance and that supposedly Jewish students have been subjected to harassment"[2].
In 2018, Yohan Benizri, the president of the Coordination Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium, denounced not only the denial, but the “explicit refusal to denounce anti-Semitism”[4].
As an example, here are two significant cases. Claude[5], a Jewish boy, an atheist, talks about his origins in the Catholic school where he attends his schooling. He immediately becomes the target of anti-Semitic attacks from some of his classmates. When they see him, they ask "so how's it going?", give the Nazi salute when they pass him, broadcast Nazi chants on smartphones in the schoolyard. Instead of saying "Degrelle[6] get out of this yard!" the Catholic school, whose name we will not reveal here out of Christian charity, "recommends" that parents "change schools" in "the interest of the student". Let us specify that the school declared itself "inclusive", but clearly in the style of Saint Paul before Vatican II, that is to say for everyone, except for Jews.
Claude's parents find a non-denominational school in a nice area of ​​Brussels, where social diversity is guaranteed. And the ordeal begins again, but this time the anti-Semitic entertainment takes on a now familiar look, more familiar than that of the extreme right. This is because Claude is the only Belgian in the class, born in Belgium. So far, nothing very worrying, the mixing of populations is normal, and diversity, diversity and other living together are the credo of all European institutions. These terms are indeed hammered home from morning to night by the European commissions that are located a stone's throw from the school where the events we are going to relate are taking place.
In this new non-denominational school, the vast majority of students are Muslim. As soon as they learn that Claude is Jewish, "the dirty Jew" is immediately attached to him. The parents complain, Claude too, but Claude's school must consider that this is a normal expression. After all, the very learned French indigenous sociologist, Nacira Guénif has already publicly explained that "type of Jew" does not mean hatred of Jews[7]. (No, but only what is negative, bad, dirty, stinking, abject, etc.). Outside of school, Claude is often pursued by his "comrades", insulted, addressed as "Jew, Jew, Jew"...
But that's not all. Claude, apart from the crime of being born Jewish, is a convinced atheist. And he doesn't hide it, openly criticizing religion, in fact, all religions, in the context of the citizenship class. The students present in class then throw at him in the presence of the teacher: "We're going to convert you, child of the devil, unbeliever, you're going to burn in hell". A Jew, and an unbeliever, that's too much for a Muslim class in a non-denominational school. But Claude doesn't let it happen, he insists: "religion is millennial bullshit".
What does the teacher do during this exchange? He says that it is not good to criticize religions. A special needs teacher threatens Claude with "having problems with the law if he continues to criticize religion". A student threatens to bring his father "to teach Claude about secularism". Claude is punished by the school for his remarks with a crazy explanation, for us, the French: he gave his opinion on religion despite the "remarks of his educator". He is then sent home from school for a few days.
The boy's parents ended up taking him out of school because they were afraid for his physical and psychological well-being.
Another testimony is very interesting: in another Belgian school, a Jewish boy is "converted" by his classmates in the schoolyard. Those in the know know that Islam is an inclusive religion, it is intended for everyone, and every Jew is a Muslim who does not know it. (Muslim means in Arabic: submitted to Allah, and follower of the Islamic religion, the religion of submission to the God of the Koran).
The elegant solution was found by the charitable friend, who, in order to spare his classmate the hell promised to the Jews, "converted" him into a "Muslim", by pronouncing the words of the shahada (profession of faith) in his place. One could smile at this, after all, children are having fun, but this event is an absolute and very naive sign of intolerance, Islamic intolerance towards otherness and the fear of Islam that Belgian schools feel.
The educational institution is so afraid of it that it prefers to keep a Jew away from school so as not to disturb the peace and respect for "religions". I insist: the problem is that it is not a question of the coexistence of "religions" but of total submission to Islamic demands through fear. Fear that forces one to make some sacrifices, notably that of the Jews.
After all, by sacrificing them, by keeping quiet about what is happening to them, by turning a blind eye to anti-Semitic insults, we kill two birds with one stone: we satisfy the old anti-Semites of origin, like Léon Degrelle, and we think we are appeasing the Muslims. The Belgians do not know the Armenian joke: "Let's preserve our Jews!" (Because after the Jews, it is always the turn of the others, history has clearly shown this without ever contradicting itself).
Islam, phobia
Muslim anti-Semitism has shaped behavior, as Christian anti-Semitism once did, and instilled fear not only in Jews, but especially in those who must take firm measures to protect its citizens.
But in Belgium, we don't like to talk about anti-Semitism, as the study cited above shows. And we love Jews especially when they are dead, preferably during the Holocaust. Belgian Jews are suffocating and the establishment vigorously encourages and reinforces this suffocation because it is "Islamophobic" in the etymological sense, that is to say, it is afraid of Islam.
How else can we explain that Belgian institutions are so silent on the unabashed Muslim anti-Semitism that thrives in schools, in the streets, in universities? How can we explain the punitive measures taken against an atheist student by the management of his school when he criticizes religion? Why is he being punished? Because religions must be respected, according to the letter addressed to the parents of this boy.
In the Belgian language, "to respect" means to keep quiet, not to show critical thinking, to cave in to the falsely consensual sheep-like "neutrality". Because obviously, this displeases Muslim students. The Belgian non-denominational school, which we are talking about here, has therefore set itself the task of raising idiotic young people, devoid of any capacity for analytical reasoning. "Dirty atheist", "child of the devil", "dirty Jew", these are insults that a high school student criticizing religion in a non-denominational school had to endure. And no voice was raised to defend him or to defend the freedom to criticize religion.
We understand the silence (or rather the indignation) of the believing students; in the case of the institution, it is afraid. Afraid to speak, afraid to think, afraid to question otherness, that of Islam in particular, of its foundations, of its rejection of the Other, of its certainties, of its strength and of its aspiration to universality. It is afraid of this Other who knows it very well, and who can do whatever he wants: mimic forced conversions, demand halal meat in the canteens, prohibit any criticism of its practices, because the institution is afraid.
The institution shirks its responsibilities, believing it has "peace", but what it does not understand is that every act of cowardice, such as excluding a Jew for "his well-being", is just one more sign of its own weakness, of its inability to manage the situation by imposing common law. Belgium is a country of consensual silence. And this is beginning to be known everywhere.
And yet, there is no shortage of warnings, complaints filed, books written on the fall of European humanism and the exposure of its Jews to Islamic vengeance. What are Belgian institutions waiting for? That all Jews leave their soil for fear of being attacked daily, as was the case in Arab countries for thirteen centuries, and for twenty centuries in Europe? That they convert to Islam, by the magic of a ritual decreed by a Muslim student? This may happen, the Jews will leave, an ex-Muslim Fadila Maaroufi will not be enough to support them, but the Belgians will be next on the list. Inch'allah.
[1] Threatened with death by certain members of the Muslim community, officially by Daesh, boycotted by the Belgian media, ignored by so-called anti-racist institutions.
[2] https://www.jean-jaures.org/publication/liberalisme-culturel-conservatisme-et-antisemitisme-en-immersion-chez-la-jeunesse-belge/
[3] https://www.lalibre.be/debats/opinions/2021/03/25/a-bruxelles-les-jeunes-croyants-ont-plus-de-prejuges-et-sont-plus-conservateurs-que-les-autres-TBVG6D5LOJFOXPLVL2KZJO32ZQ/
[4 https://www.ccojb.be/communique/assises-sur-le-racisme
[5] The first name has been changed.
[6] Léon Degrelle is the founder of the Rexist movement in Belgium. SS-Obersturmbannführer and Volksführer der Wallonen, he ended his life peacefully in Spain in 1994, without being disturbed.
[7] Le Monde, January 27, 2017 “Historian Georges Bensoussan faces anti-racist associations” 

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