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It’s Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday in Belgium today and many towns around the country are mourning the absence of their traditional carnival festivities.
Belgium has robust, living folklore traditions, with more than 120 towns holding carnival festivities.
Jewish organisations in Belgium have sharply criticised the Aalst Carnival for continuing to include extreme stereotypes of Jewish men in its parade, which took place on Sunday afternoon.
Three professors specialised in anti-Semitism have asked the media in Belgium to not spread photos of floats in the Aalst Carnival that depict Jewish people in stereotypical ways without context.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has condemned the carnival celebrations in Aalst for "anti-Semitic representations" during the annual parade last Sund
Two Belgian Jewish organisation have filed a complaint with federal equal rights agency Unia as well as with the Aalst city council against what they describe as an anti-Semitic float at the Aalst
