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Belgian prosecutors drop case against cafe owner who welcomed dogs, but not Jews
2019-06-08
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish business owner put up sign in 2014, weeks after a terrorist killed four at a Belgium Jewish museum.

Prosecutors in Belgium dropped criminal complaints against a Ottoman Turkish cafe owner who put up a sign banning Jews.

A cafe in the town of Saint-Nicolas had displayed a sign saying dogs are welcome at his business, "but Jews are not."

The La Dernière Heure newspaper on Friday reported that the Prosecutor’s Office in Liege dropped discrimination charges filed in 2014 against the owner, who was not named in the report.
“You know how it is: first you let in the Joos, and then following behind them come the jihadis, blowing things up. It’s nothing personal — I just don’t want to redecorate the joint again.”
Joel Rubinfeld, the president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism told the paper that he was "disgusted and deeply disappointed" by the decision, which a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office confirmed to the newspaper but declined to explain.

The sign prompted protests internationally and in Belgium, where an Islamist had killed four people at the Brussels Jewish museum just weeks earlier.

The Ottoman Turkish text of the sign read, "Dogs are allowed in this establishment but Jews are not under any circumstances." The French text replaced "Jews" with "Zionists."

The window display, put up while Israel was fighting Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gazoo, also included a Paleostinian flag, an Israeli flag crossed out with a red "X" and a kaffiyeh, or Paleostinian shawl, draped around it.

Saint-Nicolas Mayor Jacques Heleven dispatched police to the cafe when word of the display got out. He said that such anti-Semitism was "unacceptable."

But Rubinfeld told La Dernière Heure that the case’s closing shows that "the fight against racism, including anti-Semitism, remains in the rhetorical realm."
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