European antisemitism
The EU has sanctioned Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria (the ‘West Bank’), Israel’s biblical heartland, putting them in the same bracket as Hamas terrorists.
Meanwhile, an Israeli citizen has been denied permission to renew her long-held Belgian passport because she lives in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighbourhood of Jerusalem, located beyond the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line).
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who immigrated to Israel from Belgium in 1980, Annabelle Heerciger-Tenzer said it was like being slapped in the face. “I’ve been living in Pisgat Ze’ev for more than 20 years…suddenly, this emotional homeland is rejecting me. And for what? Not because, God forbid, I committed a crime, but because I live in Jerusalem.”
Israel says measures have been taken against this “disgraceful” move. This decision follows a Belgium court’s prosecution of two Jewish ‘mohels’ (trained circumcisers) for carrying out circumcisions.
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