Belgian university lecturer and senior executive of one of Belgium’s main trade unions, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, reported that “Israel” poisons Palestinians and kills their children for their organs.
Vanderbeeken’s column, repeating charges vehemently rejected by “Israel”, was published in August on the left-wing news site De Wereld Morgen.
This week, the Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities, or UNIA, a state watchdog on racism, received a complaint against Vanderbeeken for his accusations by Wilfried Van Hoof, a reader who claimed the text “anti-Semitic.”
Gazans are being “starved to death, poisoned and children are kidnapped and murdered for their organs,” Vanderbeeken wrote.
Following the complaint, De Wereld Morgen on Thursday removed the part about stealing organs but kept in place the accusations about poisoning and death by starvation.
The paper published a 377-word correction titled “update” explaining why it had removed the accusation referring to organ theft. In the correction, the news site accused the Zionist entity of “murdering” and “kidnapping” Palestinian children, among other war crimes.