[BREAKING NEWS: Our Centre is delighted at the response to its letter and the consequent dismissal of the delinquent employee.]

"Your Ministry and the Crisis Centre Contractor, IPG Belgium, must now vet every member at the hotline to ensure that this outrageous behaviour not be repeated and underline the fundamental empathy required in their task. Even part-time employees or interns should each sign an enforceable commitment to eschew all forms of discrimination in their work".

In a letter to Belgian Interior Minister, Jan Jambon, the Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels stated, "our members were sickened to learn how a Jewish community volunteer was mistreated by a staff member at your Ministry's Crisis Centre, while seeking a release from hospital to repatriate two Israelis injured in last week's Brussels terror attacks".

The letter noted the hotline official's response " 'So they go back to Palestine,' he then launched into a political assault on the existence of the State of Israel. So intent was he on wiping Israel off the map, he was oblivious to the plight of the terror victims he was employed to assist".

http://antisemitism-europe.blogspot.be/2016/03/belgium-crisis-center-tells-israeli.html

Samuels complimented the Minister, noting that the delinquent employee who identified himself as 'Zakaria,' has been dismissed by your contractor IPG Belgium.

The Centre added, "your Ministry and IPG Belgium, however, must now also vet every member at the Crisis Centre hotline to ensure that this outrageous behaviour not be repeated and underline the fundamental empathy required in their task. Even part-time employees or interns should each sign an enforceable commitment to eschew all forms of discrimination in their work".