‘No reason’ to undo anti-Semitic interview, Dutch daily says

Belgian Jews indicted a Dutch daily of “whitewashing anti-Semitism” after it published an talk with an author who final week pronounced Jews take land and have nauseous noses.

On Friday a NRC Handelsblad daily published a 3,500-word talk with author Dimitri Verhulst that did not residence Verhulst’s statements about Jews in a Jul 27 op-ed in another paper. Belgian and Dutch Jews called a op-ed anti-Semitic.

Hans Knoop, a orator for a Forum of Jewish Organizations of a Belgium’s Flemish Region, asked NRC Monday to take down a talk or residence a controversy.

But NRC sees “no reason” not to undo a interview, emissary editor Marcella Breedeveld to Knoops in an email.

Knoops’ organisation final week complained to military that Verhulst had committed incitement in his Jul 27 op-ed in a Belgian De Morgen paper.

In a op-ed patrician “There is no betrothed land, usually stolen land,” Verhulst misquotes a self-deprecating fun by a late French Jewish thespian Serge Gainsbourg. Verhulst quotes a thespian as saying: “Being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an nauseous nose.” The quote attributed to Gainsbourg speaks conjunction of God nor ugliness, reading: “Being Jewish is not a religion. No sacrament creates we grow such a nose.”

In a op-ed, Verhulst sarcastically calls Jews “the Chosen” and accuses Israel of “murdering” 10,000 Palestinian given 2002. The letter concludes, “There is no betrothed land. There is stolen land. There are stolen lives.”

“For a initial time given a 1940s, pristine anti-Semitism is displayed and kept in a op-ed territory of a mainstream Belgian daily,” Knoops said.

Verhult and De Morgen have not responded to queries by a Jewish Telegraphic Agency.