IN BERINGEN, IT WAS KRISTALLNACHT AGAIN.

In the night of November 9 to 10, 1938, tens of thousands of Jews in Germany and Austria had their windows smashed out, as "ordinary" German citizens and SA-men went on a rampaging tour with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered with shards of glass. This infamous assault against a peaceful and contributing minority got to be known as the "Night of the Broken Glass" - Kristallnacht in German, and it was a foreboding of something much worse and evil to follow a few years later. Almost seventy years later, all over Europe the number of anti-semitic incidents is again on the rise. And last week, the small Belgian town of Beringen had its own Kristallnacht.




From the newspaper "De Gentenaar":

BRUSSELS - Last Thursday, November 30, a group of Jewish orthodox youths was pelted with stones and chased away from the youth hostel they were staying in. The agressors were Belgian "youths" of Turkish origin.

On Thursday evening a group of around sixty youths from an Orthodox Jewish school in Antwerp arrived at 8.30 pm in Youth Hostel "De Kompel" in Beringen, an old mining town in the province of Limburg, eastern Belgium. They had been mountainbiking in Valkenburg, right across the border in Holland, and wanted to stay in Beringen for the night, planning to visit Beringen's Mining Museum the next day before resuming their journey.

At 9pm a group of Turkish youths gathered in the vicinity of the youth hostel. They shouted anti-Jewish slogans and besieged the hostel, throwing stones and pieces of concrete through the windows. Police arrived on the scene "to ease the tensions" and by 10pm "the situation was under control". Thereupon a school teacher accompanying the chassidic youngsters decided not to stay for the night in Beringen and fetch the boys back to Antwerp by bus.

Ten youths of Turkish origin, six of them minors, were arrested and led before a Court in Hasselt, where "alternative punishments" were meted out: they must pay for the damage, offer apologies to the jewish youths and were sentenced to 30 hours of community service.

Offer apologies to the Jewish youths.... Beringen is a community with a lot of Turkish immigrants. In fact, during the municipal elections the main contest for the mayor's seat ook place between Marcel Mondelaers, of the Christian Democratic Party CD & V, and a resident of Turkish origin, Selahattin Koçak, of the Socialist Party SP.a. Koçak stood a very good chance of becoming the first mayor of immigrant origin of a Belgian town, but his socialist party was in extremis beaten by the christian democrats with a difference of... 0.3%. Given the fact that indigenous Belgians, with a fertility rate of 1.5 children per woman, are on the road to extinction while the Turkish community with 3.5 children per woman is on the rise, Marcel Mondelaers may very well be Beringen's very last native Belgian mayor. Note, also, that Mr. Koçak preferred to throw in his lot with a socialist party. As I have already mentioned ad nauseam on these pages, it's striking how immigrants from a culture with archconservative views on the role of women in society, homosexual people, abortion and euthanasia and what not, time and again choose the side of leftist parties with views and values diametrically opposed to theirs.

So, although Mr. Koçak narrowly lost, in Beringen he remains the pater familias, so to say, of the Turkish immigrants, who voted massively for him. In my humble opinion, and knowing that this gang of racaille will offer excuses to the Jewish boys the day Eid-al-Fitr falls on Easter, it would have been a proper reaction of Mr. Koçak to apologize for the behaviour of the little stinker buggers.

But instead, it was Mayor Mondelaers who apologized. Again, from newspaper "De Gentenaar":

BERINGEN - "The town of Beringen offers her apologies to the Jewish community... We offer the group of teenagers the possibility to resume the planned visit to the town of Beringen. We want to prove that in spite of this incident the town remains a hospitable and tolerant place." - dixit Marcel Mondelaers, Mayor of Beringen.

Yup. A gang of semi-illiterate muslim youths chases away peacefully mountainbiking Jewish schoolboys with stones and concrete blocks, and the town apologizes. Sounds logical to me. Not. I wrote that a Jewish teacher decided to transfer the youths back to Antwerp by bus the same night. Belgium's top blogger Luc Van Braekel, who is a very reliable source and who I owe the hat tip for this story, reports that the teacher did so "because Belgian Police in Beringen told the Jewish group they could not guarantee their safety."

At first I thought this claim was so outrageous I could not believe it, but I did find a story quoting the deputy chairman of the Belgian Forum of Jewish Organizations. From the newspaper "Het Belang van Limburg":

"The worst of all is that the police could not guarantee our safety and sent our group back home in the middle of the night", says Pinkas Kornfeld, Deputy Chairman of the Forum of Jewish Organizations. "We should be able to walk around calm and freely in all of Belgium." Kornfeld emphasizes that the orthodox jews themselves definitely did not provoke the Beringen youths. "We want a strong signal from the authorities", says Mr. Kornfeld. "We certainly expect an encounter with the responsible Minister."

Too bad Mr. Kornfeld. The Belgian authorities are in the thick of the fight against the Nazi Stormtroopers of the Vlaams Belang.


MFBB.


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P.S.: second and third photos via the site of Claude Marinower.