antisemitism

Convergence watch

The Times of Israel reports:

In Belgium, some participants at an anti-Israel demonstration on Sunday in Antwerp reportedly called for Jews to be gassed. Approximately 150 demonstrators — extreme rightists and extreme leftists — convened outside the Provinciehuis concert hall in the Flemish capital to protest the IDF orchestra’s performance there, according to the online edition of the Flemish-Jewish magazine Joods Actueel.

Several demonstrators can be heard chanting “Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas” in recordings from the gathering posted on the Joods Actueel site.

The audio will be filed to police along with an official complaint over hate speech, the paper reported.

Of the extreme left and right coming together for the demonstration, Michael Freilich, Joods Actueel’s editor in chief, wrote, “We are not surprised by this. When it comes to anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiments, we find these groups together.”

Remember this?

Is it the sort of thing Ken Loach would call “understandable“?