Israel on Thursday called on Belgium to scrap this weekend's annual Carnival parade after last year's featured a float with anti-Semitic caricatures.
Last year's carnival in the industrial city of Aalst featured one float depicting Jews with exaggerated features and side locks standing over bags of money, recalling anti-Semitic tropes of the Middle Ages and Nazi Germany.
"Belgium as a Western Democracy should be ashamed to allow such a vitriolic antisemitic display. I call upon the authorities there to condemn and ban this hateful parade in Aalst," Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted.