Flemish public TV: If Jews are "chosen" they should act it, minister with Jewish ancestry might not be objective, Israel only vaccinates Jews

This is sort of unreal.

On a Flemish public TV show, which appears to have aired even before the current Gaza war, there are four segments:

The first, with the Bishop of Antwerp defining Judaism and telling Jews what their moral obligations are. Obviously, Palestinians have no such moral imperatives.

When the Jewish people/nation say it is the oldest in the area, then it must also use the most sense/intelligence. And then certainly as the chosen people of God to which it relies/ refers to , it must set/give an example that most refers to God.

(“volk” = nation as a people, not as a state)

Segment 2 shows Meryem Almaci, head of the Green Party, also telling Jews what they need to do in order to gain the approval of enlightened antisemites like her:

But for a people/nation who have been so oppressed and had such a painful history of pogroms and extermination it is incomprehensible that they themselves oppress another people as an occupier.

Jews, by stint of their history of suffering, should have learned not to inflict pain on other people.  Jews are the only ones who must learn the lessons of history while preening gentiles who stood by as Jews were slaughtered can point out their flaws. 

Then there is a panel discussion about Sophie Wilmès, Belgium's Foreign Minister, and whether her mother's Jewish background disqualifies her on issues related to Israel. Even though she was brought up Catholic, she has those Jew genes that means that you might not be able to trust her.

- Phara:Sophie Wilmes has a ... Jewish mother? She is herself jewish.

- de Borsu: It is more complicated. She also said it very clearly in Le Soir, that it is absolutely true, that her mother comes from a Jewish family

- Phara: it has also been picked up by an Israeli newspaper (Times of Israel, article by Cnaan L.)

- de Borsu: She recently made it very clear in Le Soir and what does she say? Indeed Sophie Wilmes' grandparents, one branch, were Jews but they converted to Catholicism. Her mother is really Jewish on paper but was raised as a Catholic

- Phara: Does it play a role?

- de Borsu: Look, it is impossible to say, everything plays a role

- Phara: yes but said is Minister of Foreign Affairs

- Phara again stressing: yes but said is Minister of Foreign Affairs

- de Borsu: That is also the case, that is also clear but that is the position of the MR what she defends, I don't think it defines/decides a position on her own in that area

Finally, we have a classic blood libel, where Jews are spreading the plague among goyim while they remain secure in their ghettoes.

Again Meryem Almaci:

Take the example of the vaccination we will talk about in a moment that Israel vaccinates its own Jewish citizens but not the Palestinians. These are matters that are provocative day after day and that mainly violate the human rights of Palestinians.

This is just regular, garden variety antisemitism on normal Belgian TV. And the antisemitism, in four separate areas within a single program, is so much a part of Belgian culture that no one even considers that they are engaging in the world's oldest hatred.

(h/t Rudi Roth)

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