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Israeli envoy asks Belgian news site to remove picture of ultra-Orthodox Jew

Ambassador Emmanuel Nahshon tweets that Brussels Times' use of image for a story on international COVID deaths is "unnecessary and unpleasant."

by  Ariel Kahana
Published on  10-20-2020 11:55
Last modified: 10-20-2020 14:16
Israeli envoy asks Belgian news site to remove picture of ultra-Orthodox JewThe Brussels Times

The Brussels Times found this an appropriate image for a story about global COVID deaths | Screenshot: The Brussels Times

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Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nahshon is accusing a major English-language news outlet in Belgium, The Brussels Times, of anti-Semitism after the paper used an image of an ultra-Orthodox Jew wearing a mask to illustrate a story about global COVID mortality.

"Global death toll tops 1.1 million. Why did you put a picture of an Orthodox Jew as illustration of your report? … it's unnecessary and unpleasant," Nahshon wrote in a Twitter post.

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Nahshon, who has been fighting expressions of anti-Semitism in Belgium, was outraged over the choice of image.

Coronavirus: Global death toll tops 1.1 million. ⁦@BrusselsTimes⁩ - why did you put a picture of an Orthodox Jew as illustration of your report on worldwide #Covid19 deaths ? It's unnecessary and unpleasant. Please take it off . Thank you . https://t.co/QanfLjWbfc

— Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) October 18, 2020

Nahshon asked the news outlet to choose another picture. The Israeli Embassy in Brussels said, "This is how anti-Semitism is spread."

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