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Haredi Orthodox Burn Israeli Flag in Antwerp

From JTA on 5/15/2012 at 2:48 PM

Categories: World, Israel, Religion

Haredi Orthodox Burn Israeli Flag in Antwerp

Dozens of haredi Orthodox schoolchildren participated in a Lag B'Omer bonfire in Antwerp that featured the burning of an Israeli flag. An eyewitness who photographed the event on May 10 said the boys attended a cheder of the Satmar community--an anti-Zionist Chasidic stream of approximately 150,000 adherents worldwide. The picture, taken in an interior courtyard, shows a middle-aged man burning a handmade Israeli flag as some 30 boys watch. “This is one of the first times we have seen this sort of thing …More