Early Friday morning, antisemitic vandalism was found defacing the exterior wall of the main shul belonging to the Shomrei Hadas community in Antwerp, Belgium.
Those arriving for morning tefillah were confronted with the graffiti and quickly notified security personnel, who in turn contacted law enforcement.
The message, scrawled in English, read: “Jews are child killers,” a statement apparently connected to the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip. Before authorities arrived, members of the kehillah documented the scene with photographs.
Leaders of Shomrei Hadas noted that Antwerp is typically considered relatively calm when it comes to antisemitic activity, but they acknowledged that this disturbing incident reflects the broader rise in such acts across Europe.
Belgian police responded promptly, opening a formal investigation after receiving the complaint. Detectives are currently examining security footage from cameras in the vicinity in an effort to identify the perpetrator.
“The police are investigating, investigators are checking the security cameras and hope to find the suspect,” the community said.
{Matzav.com}
Fun fact:
Around once a day, someone in Belgium commits suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train.
This adds up to hundreds of suicides each year in a small country.
Many times, the frustrating delays in Belgium’s train system derive from one of these suicides.
You’d think Belgium might want to explore why so many people in their society consider life no longer worth living and why they kill themselves in such an awful way, which also traumatizes the people on the train, in addition to inconveniencing innocent people on their way to work, school, or doctor’s appointments.
But no, they need to look all the way past their own borders at Gazan children (mostly killed via actions by their parents and terrorist leaders) and call Jews “child killers.”