Tim Van Rompaey

Dear Antwerp Mayor @elsvandoesburg Dear PM @Bart_DeWever This week, I had another long and disheartening conversation with a Jewish student at @UAntwerpen who is considering leaving the university altogether because the environment has become increasingly hostile toward Jews. As I posted previously, one of the few Jewish professors has already decided to leave both the university and the city after decades of academic life in your city. This person is terrified of being identified, but has given permission to share their testimony anonymously: "After fifty years living in Antwerp and forty years at the University of Antwerp as student, assistant and professor, I’m leaving. I no longer feel at home in the city and feel completely estranged from my university that has become a hotbed of radicalism. My son who was born and raised in Antwerp and who wears a kippa, has been called a child murderer on the street by a Flemish person and was told to “get out of here”. At the university the students are shouting that Jews should get out of Palestine. He and his family are leaving too. It just became a bad place for Jews." A Jewish PhD student researching rare genes—work that depends on collaboration with Tel Aviv University, one of the few centers in her field—asked the new rector, with a trembling voice, how she is supposed to continue. The response was blunt: that’s too bad for you, but our virtue-signalling boycotts take priority—met with loud applause from the activist crowd. drive.google.com/file/d/1AjazjM… Yet another professor associated with the Institute of Jewish Studies told me about PhD students breaking down in tears in the hallway due to aggressive intimidation by self-described “pro-Palestinian” activists (quotation marks intentional) who have completely taken over the campus. x.com/mboudry/status… The honorary of PhD for a mendacious ideologue like Francesca Albanese was a foolish attempt of the university to appease the activists, in the hope of preserving limited collaboration with Israeli universities. Predictably, it had the opposite effect and only emboldened them. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026… Eighty-five years after the Nazi occupation, Antwerp is again becoming an unsafe place for Jews. If nothing changes, Jews will leave the city, taking with them their knowledge, learning, and cultural contributions. Please act. The rector and university administration don't seem to care. Kind regards MB

Er is naar de @MR_officiel geluisterd! 80 miljoen euro wordt vrijgemaakt om werkenden in dit land te ondersteunen bij de stijgende energieprijzen. Dat geld komt van de extra inkomsten van de staat op brandstof. De regering staat aan de kant van werkenden. Iedereen die elke ochtend opstaat om België draaiende te houden, kan op ons rekenen. Nu moeten we blijven doorwerken aan de begroting. De overheidsuitgaven terugdringen, is essentieel om de toekomst van ons land veilig te stellen. Minder overheid voor meer koopkracht! #MRvoorzitter #trotseliberaal

Vraag van @StevenCoenegrachts aan de premier: “De mensen zeggen: waarom grijpt deze regering niet in aan de pomp? Het antwoord is simpel: de begroting van deze regering is aan het kapseizen. En dus zegt Arizona: tank mijn zakken maar vol met BTW en accijnzen. Staat u aan de kant van de taksen of aan de kant van de burger, premier?”