“In a democratic country like Belgium this has no place in 2019, carnival or not,” said a statement by the FJO, Belgium’s Forum of Jewish Organisations.
“The Jewish community naturally accepts humour, this is very important in a society, but there are limits that can not be exceeded.
“We have already undergone the effects of the caricatures of [Nazi German newspaper] Der Sturmer in the Second World War.”
A spokeswoman for the European Commission, based in nearby Brussels, called on Belgian authorities to take action: “It should be obvious to all that portraying such representations in the streets of Europe is absolutely unthinkable, 74 years after the Holocaust,” she said, according to The Independent.
“It is the responsibility of the national authorities to take the appropriate measures on the basis of the applicable law.”
