ISTANBUL (AA) – Nearly 32,000 people took to the streets of Brussels Sunday to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, according to the police. The demonstrators also called on the Belgian government to push for a complete international military embargo against Israel. The event was organized by a coalition of civil society...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pro-Palestinian activists in Belgium are working to remove the status of the Brussels municipality of Ixelles and city of Antwerp as “twin cities” with the Israeli town of Megiddo. Belgian citizen Malika Hamri, the pioneer of the initiative, shared that protests have been held in front of the Ixelles municipal buil...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Belgium’s University of Ghent has announced that it is severing ties with three Israeli educational and research institutions, citing misalignment with its human rights policy, according to the rectorate. “We currently assess these three partners as problematic according to the Ghent University human rights test, in contr...
BRUSSELS (AA) – A group of students at the Free University of Brussels has joined the Free Palestine Movement, asking for an academic boycott. The students of the Dutch-language campus of the university occupied the dining hall where they set their tents, blankets, carpets, sleeping bags, and food. They expressed their determination to n...
LONDON (AA) – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Tuesday called for a cease-fire in Gaza and urged nations to seize the current moment to work towards a two-state solution. During his speech at the London School of Economics, De Croo recalled a recent visit to the region with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez, […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Idit Rosenzweig-Abu sparked a new crisis when she made reference to a Belgian serial killer in her criticism of the newspaper’s publication of images showing Israeli and Palestinian prisoners side by side after their releases. Her comments drew reactions from Belgian politicians. In an ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Organizations representing the Muslim community in Belgium have challenged a law in the Flemish region at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the grounds that it violates freedom of religion and worship. According to a statement by the Belgian Religious Foundation on Thursday, the petition was submitted under the...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in Belgium unanimously adopted a draft resolution Thursday making sex education compulsory in schools, triggering protests. The bill, which targets 85,000 students in the French-speaking Wallonia region and 25,000 in Brussels, was passed unanimously, with three deputies a...
ANKARA (AA) – The Muslim community in Belgium is contesting new sexuality education methods in schools, according to a statement. “This decision seems to confront the universal and inviolable values of the familial education framework, and the interests of the students and their families,” Muslim associations said in a statem...
ANKARA (AA) – The public prosecutor in Belgium will request the forfeiture of nationality for the defendants of the 2016 violent attacks, local media reported. The prosecutor announced on Monday before the court that it will request the forfeiture for Mohamed Abrini, Ali El Haddad Asufi and Bilal El Makhouki, who have both Moroccan and [&helli...
