Culture
11:02 24/02/2021
An investigation into offensive representations of Jews on show at last year’s Aalst carnival is still ongoing, prompting anger and consternation among the anti-discrimination groups which submitted the original reports 12 months ago.
During the carnival on 23 February 2020, several performances which angered the Jewish community were reported by Unia, the inter-federal centre against discrimination, to the prosecutor s office in Dendermonde.
Caricatures of Jewish people with hooked noses and the bodies of ants, dressed in Hasidic clothes, paraded along the streets not far behind fake gestapo officers and marionettes wearing the Star of David who closed their eyes, held their mouths and plugged their ears.