Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar pushed back against Brussels' rebuke of the resident American ambassador, who'd warned about brith milah prosecutions.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday highlighted Belgium’s antisemitism problem in a public exchange with his Belgian counterpart.
The unusual comments followed a rare condemnation by the U.S. ambassador in Brussels of local authorities’ treatment of three Jewish mohels—men who perform nonmedical circumcision on Jewish infants.
The 316-word post by the ambassador, Bill White, alleged that the ongoing police investigation of the mohels was antisemitic. This prompted Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot, who has accused Israel of engaging in a genocide in Gaza, to insist on X that “any suggestion that Belgium is antisemitic is false, offensive, and unacceptable.”
