The agency will discuss the removal of the festival from world heritage sites • For several years anti-Semitic dolls appear during the storm and provoke a storm • Ambassador Nachshon: "important goal"
The performance of the defender of Jews at the Ballast festival, last year
The UNESCO Heritage Commission is scheduled to convene next week in Bogota, Colombia, and its agenda includes the recommendation of professional teams to exclude from the list of heritage sites the Ballast Festival in Belgium, which presents Jews based on blatant anti-Semitic motifs.
The festival has been around since the Middle Ages, which is why it has been recognized as a World Heritage Site. The anti-Semitic dolls have been on display for at least a couple of years, and since the storm arose for them, the organizers have only made the motives of Jewish subjugation worse.
Among other things, the Jews are seen as having long noses sitting on sacks of money, dressed in Hasidic clothing. Another year, SS officers with tinsel of Cecalon B. appeared, noting that offensive figures of other minorities, such as Muslims, were not present at the festival.
The UNESCO professional rank has long stated that the event does not fit the organization's values, but the vote to approve the disqualification is scheduled for next week. In Israel, all 24 member countries of the Heritage Committee, including Arab states that have no formal ties with Israel, are expected to vote for the disqualification. To make sure that happens, the Foreign Office instructed the Israeli Embassy in Bogota to go as far as it could to make sure.
Ambassador Nachshon // Photo Archive: Oren Ben Hakun
The Municipality of Elast announced on Tuesday that it is removing the festival from its list of heritage sites. But the move has no meaning.
Belgium's Ambassador to Israel, Emanuel Nachshon, told Israel Today that "removing the festival from the list of UNESCO heritage sites is a matter of utmost importance, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all relevant delegations mobilize. We will not remain silent on the contempt of Jews, and we will continue to struggle with the Jewish community. "
