How my JTA reporting about an anti-Semitic cartoon changed my views of Belgium – for the worse | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — I used to think I had a pretty good understanding of what it means to be Jewish in Belgium.
A longtime observer of that polarized binational country, whose dysfunctions and successes often reflect those of the European Union headquartered in its capital, Brussels, I have family ties there and am fluent in the local languages.