On the 17th of May, VRT channel’s political show “De Afspraak”, journalist Phara de Aguirre insisted bringing Foreign Affairs Minister Sophie Wilmès’s Jewish roots into the Israel-Palestine conflict discussion. The journalist conflated Jews and Israelis and made that insidious suggestion that Jews hold double – an age-old antisemitic trope. In so doing she also portrayed the Minister of Foreign Affairs as posing a danger to the country just because of her ethnic and religious background.
President Serge Dahan denounced this act by sending letters to this Flemish channel’s CEO.