Tag Archive 'Belgium'

Obama trots out his anti-Israel message using a self-loathing Jew

Ignore the fact that the Qur’an is drenched in Jew hated.  Ignore the fact that, since Islam came into being, it has alternately treated Jews as second class citizens or actively tried to slaughter them.  If you can ignore those realities, you too can be an American ambassador in the Obama administration.  You get bonus [...]

Can Europe Save Itself? What I Saw in Flanders.

Forgive my long opening discourse. I need to set the stage. Most Americans don’t know much about Belgium and Flanders. It’s a shame. For a quick summary, Flanders is the region that stretches from Belgium’s northern border with the Netherlands, west to the  English Channel and into northern France (including Dunkirk). It is home to [...]

This is Europe

Reading this, you can’t tell if it happened in 1938 or 2008: An American tourist was kicked out of a cafe in Belgium for being Jewish. Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old professor, told the Antwerp Jewish magazine Joods Actueel that he was ejected from the renowned restaurant Le Panier d’Or in Bruges after a waiter saw [...]