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Belgium's recent local elections triggered "an unprecedented wave of manifestations of anti-Semitism," according to the country's organization of French-speaking Jews.
The Oct. 14 election and the campaign preceding the vote "were characterized by a flood of anti-Semitic events the likes of which we have never before seen," Maurice Sosnowski, president of the CCOJB, said in a statement on Oct. 17.
In Schaarbeek, a municipality near Brussels, "candidates who belonged to the Jewish community were attacked for their affiliation" and the municipality saw a "hate campaign under the pretext of anti-Zionism," according to Sosnowski.