Antwerp’s Jews are a prime target for Islamic terrorism, a Belgian official said. “The threat of a terrorist strike on Antwerp is grossly underestimated,” the port city’s public prosecutor, Bart Van Lijsebeth, said in an interview published Saturday in the Gazet van Antwerpen newspaper.
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