The European Jewish Parliament (EJP) and The European Jewish Union (EJU) are outraged by the announcement "Welcome to this train for Auschwitz. All Jews are asked to get off at Buchenwald" made over the tannoy of the train linking Namur to Brussels this Thursday 3 May 2012.

The Belgian National Railway Company SNCB "strongly condemned" an announcement made Thursday in a train over the loudspeaker by an unknown person "Welcome to the train to Auschwitz. The Jews are asked to get off at Buchenwald."

A doctor in a Brussels University hospital who hurled anti-Semitic slogans at a Jewish intern earlier this week, was fired, the hospital said Wednesday.

A Belgian hospital doctor has been suspended for hurling anti-Semitic and racist slogans at a Jewish colleague, Jewish weekly Joods Actueel reported.

Belgium remains a "friend of Israel" with which it maintains "frank and cordial" diplomatic relations despite some occasional points of disagreement in particular on the "settlement policy," a Belgian official told a local Jewish leader.

Israel has summoned the ambassadors of Belgium and Austria to the foreign ministry to reprimand them for being the only two European Union members to support the establishment of a "fact-finding mission to probe the effects of settlements on Palestinian human rights."

In 2012, Belgium assumes the presidency of the "International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research", which defends democratic values through educational efforts against racism and anti-Semitism.

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Research Institute, has opened an investigation into revoking the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" from a Belgian official credited with saving hundreds of lives during the Holocaust.

Being accused by the Jewish community in Belgium of "deligitimizing Israel” by failing to mention this country’s name on a Middle East map illustrating articles on the Arab Spring, Belgian daily Le Soir speaks of an "indisputable error" but said it was "outraged and insulted" by the accusation.

For the third year since US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman took office a Hanukkah Menorah has its place in the lobby of the US Embassy in Brussels.