Flemish novelist and columnist Herman Briusselmans has sparked outrage with his latest HUMO magazine column, where he accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "murdering children and dragging the world into World War III."
In his provocative writing, Briusselmans incited violence against Jews in the context of the ongoing Gaza conflict. He wrote, "For every Hamas or Hezbollah fighter killed by that Israeli shitty army, hundreds of innocent civilians are killed, and we can do nothing but keep repeating that many of them are children," and further claimed that Netanyahu wants to "wipe out the Arab world."
Briusselmans ominously predicted, "The Middle East will explode, with unruly consequences for the rest of the world. And all this by a small, thick and bald Jew, who bears the ominous name of Bibi Netanyahu. I see a picture of a Palestinian child crying and screaming completely beyond all senses to his mother lying under the debris, and I imagine that this child is my son Roman, and the mother is my friend Lena, and I am so angry that I want to push a sharp knife in the throat of every Jew I come across."
In response, the Union of Jewish Organizations in Europe (EJA) has demanded legal action, urging Belgium’s Attorney General to arrest Briusselmans for incitement to murder.
The EJA also called for HUMO magazine to suspend Briusselmans, with EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin stating, "The publication of this disgusting column indicates a serious flaw in the judgment of the editors. We demand a full apology in public for its publication and the suspension of the writer involved."
* Ynet contributed to this article.
