Belgium’s prime minister fired back at President Donald Trump’s ambassador Wednesday, rejecting accusations of antisemitism.

The clash followed a move by Antwerp prosecutors to reportedly indict two Jewish ritual circumcisers Wednesday. “Belgium is not an antisemitic state; that is nonsense,” Bart De Wever said, according to Belga News Agency. The prime minister cautioned that the case may never reach trial and urged restraint from all sides. “Stirring up the controversy is a bad idea,” he said.

U.S. Ambassador Bill White had gone public on X, calling the prosecution “a shameful stain on Belgium” and saying the country’s image abroad would be that of an antisemitic state. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar piled on, branding the case “a scarlet letter on Belgian society.” (RELATED: Trump Suing Harvard Again, Claiming Anti-Jewish Harassment)

Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot answered the ambassador on X, calling White’s framing “defamatory” and pointing out the probe began with a complaint from inside the Jewish community itself.

That complainant was Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Friedman, an anti-Zionist figure who has been accused in the past of Holocaust denial, according to The Algemeiner. Friedman’s 2023 filing accused six mohels of putting babies at risk through metzitzah b’peh, a practice the accused mohels deny carrying out. White said one of the mohels facing prosecution is American.

The Antwerp Public Prosecutor’s Office indicted two mohels for “intentional assault or bodily harm with premeditation against minors, as well as the illegal practice of medicine,” according to the outlet.

In February, Belgium summoned White after he posted on X that “antisemitism is UNACCEPTABLE” and pressed Belgian officials to “get into the 21st century,” according to The Hill.

Belgium’s Jewish community has faced real threats in recent months, The Algemeiner reported. A March explosion at a Liege synagogue, treated by authorities as antisemitic, led the government to station soldiers across major cities. A pre-trial chamber will decide June 18 whether the mohel case heads to trial.

De Wever delivered his rebuke ahead of Belgium’s 81st commemoration of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in Antwerp, Belga News Agency reported.