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Jewish groups have accused a Belgian public television channel of outright anti-Semitism over a series of broadcasts making fun of the Jewish community. One 1940s-style comedy sketch lampooned Jews' reactions to comments made by the culture minister of Flanders, the country's Flemish-speaking community.
Another programme had intended to teachers viewers of the VRT channel how to make Adolf Hitler's favourite meal but was pulled before it was broadcast.

Jewish groups accused VRT, the main public Flemish-language tv channel, of being completely insensitive to the history of Jews in Europe.

Protests reached a new peak after a satirical programme "Man bijt hond" ("Man Bites Dog") ran a 40-second piece entitled "the Jews are still angry".

The sequence made fun of the reactions of the Jewish community to comments made by the Flanders culture minister, Bert Anciau, who had likened the victims of a recent nursery school killing in Flanders to those of the Israeli offensive in the
Gaza Strip.

In a 1940s newsreel-style pastiche, a narrator listed a series of institutions and objects which the Jewish community was "still not angry with"; including the America-Israel Friendship League, the 'movement for friendship between Jews and Israel', Rolex, Rolls Royce and the Antwerp Diamond Council.

A drawing depicted a bearded Jew with his face twisted in rage grasping for a huge diamond. Then viewers saw black and white images of Orthodox Jews dancing, followed by the images of a watch and a luxury car.