European Jewish Association started legal incitement to murder proceedings against the writer who says in Humo magazine that he wants “to shove a sharp knife in the throat of every Jew I come across”
The Brussels based European Jewish Association (EJA) representing hundreds of Jewish communities across the continent is starting legal action against a writer who was published in Belgian magazine Humo for incitement to murder.
It is also demanding a full public apology from the magazine and the suspension of the writer involved.
“There is nothing, nothing even remotely funny, ironic or satirical about the psychopathic incitement to murder Jews,” says Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the EJA chairman.
In the Humo piece Herman Brusselmans accuses Netanyahu of murdering children and dragging the world into a third world war: “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.”
Rabbi Margolin added:
“We know this is a shock-jock journalist, who pushes the boundaries. But publicly expressing his desire to stab the throat of any Jew he comes across is psychopathic. Given his popularity and infamy, it is also an invitation for others to do likewise. It is completely and utterly out of all bounds. It nothing short of incitement to murder.
“The publication of this disgusting column indicates a serious flaw in the judgment of the editors.
“We are taking a legal case against the writer for the serious charge of incitement to murder. We are also demanding a full apology in public from Humo for its publication and the suspension of the writer involved.”
