Israel Hayom via JNS
By Ariel Kahana
Ambassador Emmanuel Nahshon tweets that use by “The Brussels Times” of such a picture to illustrate a story on international COVID deaths is “unnecessary and unpleasant” • “This is how anti-Semitism is spread,” says the Israeli Embassy in Brussels.
Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nahshon is accusing a major English-language news outlet in Belgium, The Brussels Times, of anti-Semitism, after the paper used an image of an ultra-Orthodox Jew wearing a mask to illustrate a story about global COVID-19 mortality.
“Global death toll tops 1.1 million. Why did you put a picture of an Orthodox Jew as illustration of your report? … it’s unnecessary and unpleasant,” Nahshon wrote in a Twitter post.
Nahshon, who has been fighting expressions of anti-Semitism in Belgium, was outraged over the choice of image.
Nahshon asked the news outlet to choose another picture. The Israeli Embassy in Brussels said, “This is how anti-Semitism is spread.”
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
Caption: A photo accompanying a 'Brussels Times' article about global COVID-19 deaths.
Source: Screenshot/The Brussels Times.
