The reports of anti-Jewish persecution in Mexico have caused a great deal of excitement among the Jewish population of Antwerp. A protest meeting was arranged, but was postponed at the last moment on the intervention of the Mexican Consul, who promised to notify his Government of the feeling of indignation existing among the Jews of Antwerp, and to ask it what measures it has taken to prevent such anti-Jewish persecution recurring.
Antwerp Jews have also recently experienced a similar movement to that which has been going on in Mexico. Many Jews who have been unable to earn their livelihood at their own trade, because of the crisis in the diamond industry in which the Jews of Belgium have been largely represented, have taken to street-trading, and (according to a report in the J.T.A. Bulletin of May 21st.) the Belgian street-traders resent their competition, and clashes between Belgian and Jewish market-traders have been frequent in the last few weeks, resulting at times in serious fighting. The local authorities in several of the Antwerp suburbs have taken a hand, it was added, and are refusing to allow the Jewish dealers to stand at the pitches they have held in the market-places.
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