In the meantime, while some try to promote cultural integration, others promote active segregation, and not only.
Something very strange (or maybe not) is happening in Belgium these days: a small but important number of Jews (there is a wealthy important community, in particular in Antwerp) are supporting a far-right party whose founders were Nazi collaborators. The xenophobic party, Vlaams Belang (previously Vlaams-Blok), has grown on fears of immigrants (mostly arabs and turks) claiming Belgium to the belgian (well... more Flanders to the flemish, that is...) and, unlike the prewar parties from which it is descended, courts Jewish votes! according to an article by the IHT, some 5% of the Jews in Antwerp voted for the Vlaams Belang in the last election... Now it remains to be seen what will happen in this year's elections. In the last ones, this party got 1/3 of the votes in Antwerp.
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