Alec Vuijlsteke

This is a shameful stain on Belgium. The prosecution of these religious figures (mohels), one of whom is American, is WRONG and won’t be tolerated. Belgium will be thought of now as anti Semitic by world. Until this is resolved - there is no way around it. The Trump Administration condemns this judicial action and also condemns the political inaction by the Belgium Government to find a solution with the beautiful Jewish communities here in Belgium. We call upon the Belgium Government to work with the Jewish leaders and communities to find a certification solution immediately. For the sake of Belgium’s reputation around the world, I hope the Belgian Government will act NOW. We will be making more announcements shortly following our meetings with the Belgium Government. @StateSEAS @DeputySecState @SecRubio

Terwijl wij niet op de koffie mogen bij die grappige mallerds die onze universiteiten bezetten, ondertussen de staatsveiligheid in Nederland: De invloed van het Hamasnetwerk op demonstraties: ’Verdeeldheid in de samenleving’ | De Telegraaf telegraaf.nl/binnenland/de-…

Je zou denken dat een satirische video is, maar het is echt: gemaskerde Hamas-wannabe's bezetten de Gentse universiteit @ugent. #Belgistan 🇧🇪 En dit op het moment dat de Nederlandse veiligheidsdient AIVD stelt dat Hamas betrokken is bij pro-Palestinaprotesten. 👇🏻

I received this heartbreaking message from a Jewish professor at @UAntwerpen, who is leaving both the city and the university after four decades. I can hardly express how deeply this saddens and enrages me—especially in light of last week’s craven and disgraceful charade surrounding the honorary doctorate of @FranceskAlbs. "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 and has completely lost its sense of academic values of critical thinking, discussion and genuine diversity of viewpoints. I fear that the student generation that – with the support of the university authorities - has now become indoctrinated and brainwashed to a point of no return. 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." This is on you, rectors. You have made universities into hostile places for Jews (unless they ritually denounce zionism and Israel). They will abandon you and take all their learning, knowledge and wisdom with them. And don't worry, @UGent, you have scarcely any Jewish professors left to begin with. The great Jewish linguist and classicist Julien Klener has long since retired. When I met him recently, he told me how relieved he is not to have to endure this ideological madness anymore.