102 antisemitic acts have been recorded in Belgium last year, a group monitoring anti-Semitic acts in the country said.
This represents a rise of 60 % in comparison with 2013.
In 2014 Belgium has seen the worst antisemitic attack in its history with the killing of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an Islamist terrorist.
Other antisemitic attacks include the stabbing of an ultra-Orthodox Jew walking to asynagogue in Antwerp, stones thrown against a bus carrying Jewish children in Antwerp, antisemitic threats and insults against visitors of the National Memorial for Jewish martyrs in Brussels or antisemitic emails sent to institutions representing the Jewish community.
The strong surge in the number of antisemitic acts in 2014 was also due in large part to the impact in Belgium of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas inGaza last summer.
