All it needed was some graffiti too Belgium’s third largest city with hate.
A group of Israeli Frisbee athletes were due to play in an international competition in Ghent last week when a vandal sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti near the field: “Boycott Israhell now!”
The city’s mayor and police force reacted madly by dusting the Israeli team from the competition.
Huh? The graffiti did not even call for violence, and the fact that it was in English suggests that it was more propaganda than threat.
At most, it can be a reason for gentile citizens to gather and show that the European rhetoric of social tolerance applies to Jews as well.
But no: When the police chief broke the “You’re out” news to the team’s coach, “This is your war, not mine.”
The city told the coaches and team members they couldn’t even watch the game.
In 2024, people in a major Western European city (a university town, no less!) are banned from sporting events because they are Jewish.
The city embraces a quiet policy of Juden Reindeer it is becoming all too common in Europe.
Does Belgium still consider itself a civilized nation?
Note also that the pan-European athletics federation behind the tournament passively co-signed this ugliness, proving once again that the sentiments that made Hitler and his cadres successful are still alive and well.
The rationale here – that allowing these players to compete could in any way compromise the security of the tournament – is completely hollow: if police believe that Jews turning up to play their chosen sport will provoke a violent response from the local population, then the local population must be detained, not the Jews.
Also, that morally monstrous cop is dead wrong in his “not my war” assessment: Secure a peaceful frisbee tournament absolutely is the job of the police.
And the Israel-Hamas war is nothing less than the struggle for civilization against barbarism. And Israel is fighting the good fight.
Belgium, just as it did during World War II, has decided to capitulate to barbarism.