caricatures in the media including a caricature on the official central Flanders educational website, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. In addition, he described an increase of 30% in the number of antisemitic incidents including physical assaults and vandalism of Jewish institutions. Furthermore, according to a survey conducted among eight Jewish communities in eight European Union countries, 88% of Belgian Jews feel that in the course of recent years, antisemitism has intensified in their country. 10% of the Belgian survey respondents reported suffering from incidents of physical violence or threats due to their Jewish affiliation since 2008. Most of the victims did not report the incidents to the police. The increased frequency of antisemitic attacks started in May 2014, when a Franco-Algerian from Roubaix killed four people in a shooting at the Belgian Jewish Museum in Brussels. Two days later, a young Muslim man entered the CCU (Jewish Cultural Center) while an event was taking place and shouted racist slurs. A month later, a school bus in Antwerp, that was driving 5-year-old Jewish children was stoned by a group of Muslim teens. Towards the end of August 2014, a 75-year-old Jewish woman was hit and pushed to the ground because of her Jewish-sounding surname. The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism reported six racist incidents, three of which tool place as a part of different demonstrations againstOperation Protective Edge in Gaza (July–August 2014). Those demonstrations included antisemitic slurs such as "slaughter the Jews" and "Death to the Jews." Aalst annual carnival In 2009, UNESCO added an annual Aalst, Belgium carnival to its extended Intangible Cultural Heritage List. In March 2019, a float showcasing Jewish stereotypes was displayed at the carnival. The float was widely condemned by major European Jewish groups and Belgium's Jewish community. In a report to UNESCO following a complaint by the , Unia, the country's watchdog on racism, said the float was of a clearly antisemitic kind, but that no laws were breached. In the context of folklore, there was no intent to incite towards discrimination and then stereotypes are not illegal. After the city's mayor refused to ban a repeat of such displays, he asked UNESCO through a statement to regional TV Oost to strip the Aalst carnival of World Heritage status, which UNESCO did in December 2019, "over recurring repetition of racist and antisemitic representations". Data and Analysis A review study published in 2015 by the Institute