"A prominent #rabbi from #Brussels who once criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for calling on #European#Jews to move to #Israel now asks the #Jewish state to prepare for a wave of immigrants from the continent due to #antisemitism.
“My message to the #Israeli prime minister today is not as sure as it used to be,” says Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association lobby group in Brussels, at a conference in #Amsterdam on combating antisemitism.
“Today I say to Israel: We are not there yet, but be ready, get your government agencies ready,” Margolin says."
31 May 1596: d. John Leslie, Bishop of Ross near #Brussels#otd Also an important historian. Here is his History of Scots (1578), in an Irish Franciscan copy. (JMcC)
Ardent supporter & friend of Mary Queen of #Scots.
And in #Brussels? If you dream of living in a #cohousing, maybe you want to consider joining our group. Presentation on 6th of June: https://thereef.brussels , then click on "Join us" to find the registration link.
Graffitis, trash everywhere, one McDonald's attacked, all bus stops graffitied, at least one trash can burning, these are the leftovers of the most recent demonstration "for peace in #Gaza" here in #Brussels.
And not so long ago, when people were still demonstrating for peace in #Ukraine, the city showed it could have thousands of peaceful demonstrators.
Now a small gathering leaves a smell of war zone. I guess not all peace demonstrations are really about peace. 🤷🏻♂️
@peterhoneyman I eventually took another route with 2 changeovers and arrived only 20 minutes later than the original schedule. Which is quite good actually.
#Belgium will deliver 30 of its F-16 fighters to #Ukraine by 2028, Foreign Minister Hadja #Lahbib announced on Tuesday in La Matinale de Bel RTL. The first planes should already be delivered "by the end of the year".
This commitment will be formalized in an agreement which will be signed this Tuesday in #Brussels on the occasion of the visit to the capital of Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky.
26 May 1602: b. Philippe de Champaigne #otd in #Brussels - he would become a painter & future founder member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in #Paris.
Here he is 1668 painted by his nephew Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
#I know #Russia doesn't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough,” Christopher #Cavoli told reporters after a meeting of the alliance’s defense chiefs at #NATO headquarters in #Brussels
“They don't have the skill and the capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage," said the #US general, but added: "They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that”