Emanuel Nachshon attacked the "Brussels Times" website because of the image, knowing about the global mortality situation from Corona • The embassy claimed: "This is how anti-Semitism is spread"
Title of the Belgian website "Brussels Times" (screenshot)
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Israel's ambassador to Belgium, Emanuel Nachshon, accuses the local newspaper "Brussels Times" of anti-Semitism due to an image of an ultra-Orthodox in the news that its headline refers to global mortality from Corona.
"There are more than 1.1 million dead people from Corona in the world. Why did you choose to put a picture of an Orthodox Jew? It is neither pleasant nor necessary," the ambassador wrote today (Sunday).
The site published a general article on the state of the corona in the world.
Although the number of Jewish deaths in the plague is negligible compared to the total number of deaths, the newspaper's editors put a picture of a young Haredi from the Western Wall on the front page.
Coronavirus: Global death toll tops 1.1 million.
@BrusselsTimes - why did you put a picture of an Orthodox Jew as an illustration of your report on worldwide # Covid19 deaths?
It's unnecessary and unpleasant.
Please take it off.
Thank you.
https://t.co/QanfLjWbfc
- Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) October 18, 2020
Nachshon, who struggled with other antisemitic phenomena in Belgium such as the annual march in Elast, was furious at the choice of image.
In a Twitter tweet, Nachshon called on the editors to replace the photo.
The Israeli embassy in Brussels added that "this is how anti-Semitism is spread."