2023-11-10 10:56:51
His message is not just for the Jewish community, he said. He wants to bring people together. “Brussels and Belgium without the Jews, without the Muslims, or without the 184 nationalities, it is not Brussels and Belgium.“
A message advocating listening and speaking that the vice-president of the PS brought to the last party office last Monday. Faced with this fear felt by the Jewish community, politicians have a responsibility to listen and come to the table. “And it is independent of the debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even if it has a link“, specifies the elected official.
Brussels and Belgium without the Jews, without the Muslims, or without the 184 nationalities, it is not Brussels and Belgium.
On this point, the position of the PS is clear, he said, “We have always been for ‘two peoples, two states’, nothing has changed“. “We can be very pro-Palestinian or very pro-Israeli, but there is no time when we can justify an anti-Semitic act or a racist act. You have to be very clear. It is not because we defend a cause that our national community should be undermined..” To preserve it, he recalls the importance of not stigmatizing. “I lived for twenty years in the Annessens district. The Belgian-Moroccan community is very close to the Jewish community. A million Sephardic Jews lived in Morocco until recently“, he recalls.
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