{"id":2393,"date":"2026-02-18T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/2393\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:20:20","slug":"cam-calls-charges-against-mohels-in-belgium-a-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/2393\/","title":{"rendered":"CAM calls charges against Mohels in Belgium a witch-hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Combat Antisemitism Movement<\/a> (CAM) has slammed the criminal charges against three mohels<\/a>, those who perform Jewish circumcisions, in Belgium. Last May, police in Antwerp rounded up mohels suspected of illegally conducting the Jewish circumcisions. Three mohels have been charged for performing a medical intervention without a medical license.<\/p>\n

US Ambassador to Belgium<\/a> Bill White has called on the country to drop all investigations against the three mohels arrested last summer in a raid, calling the case anti-Semitic in a sharply worded post on X. The Ambassador was subsequently summoned by his host country after the tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe join Ambassador White in his condemnation of these outrageous arrests, which constitute a witch-hunt against those merely fulfilling an ancient and long-standing Jewish tradition,\u201d said CEO of Combat Antisemitism Movement Sacha Roytman Dratwa. \u201cThese arrests are having a chilling effect on the Belgium Jewish community, because it is telling them that if their traditions are not wanted, then they are not wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo many, this is designed to make Jewish life impossible and is inherently anti-Semitic, because while intent can be debated, it is impact that matters, and this is having a massive impact on the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ambassador White tweeted, \u201cAnti-Semitism is unacceptable in any form and it must be rooted out of our society. And I call upon all of Belgium to do a much better job on this subject\u2026..Specifically, you must drop the ridiculous and antisemitic \u201cprosecution\u201d now of the three Jewish religious figures (mohels) in Antwerp. They are doing what they have been trained to do for thousands of years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has slammed the criminal charges against three mohels, those who perform Jewish circumcisions,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[236,7,2042,2114],"class_list":{"0":"post-2393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-circumcision-ban","11":"tag-combat-antisemitism-movement"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}