Trump Wants Belgium To Stop Harassing Mohels
Trump wants Belgium to change its its laws, to allow non-medically certified Mohels to perform circumcisions.
Belgium police, raided locations in Antwerp, where about 20,000 Orthdox/Haredi community is concentrated in the city center, around the diamond district, and continue to practice Haredi/Orthodox traditions.
Looks like the practice is legal in the US.
US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White has called on the country to drop all investigations against three mohels (individuals who perform circumcision) arrested last summer in a raid, calling the case antisemitic in a sharply worded post on X.
In May, police in Antwerp rounded up mohels suspected of illegally conducting the ritual Jewish circumcisions. Officials conducted early morning raids on three locations in Antwerp’s Jewish Quarter and nearby Green Quarter seeking knives and other equipment used in circumcisions, according to reports at the time.
Three mohels have been charged for performing a medical intervention without a medical license, and prosecutors now believe they have enough evidence to get a conviction, Belgian MP Michael Freilich, the country’s only Orthodox Jewish lawmaker, told The Times of Israel. A trial date has not yet been set, he said, noting it may take several months to do so.
Indicating that he had the backing of US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other leading officials, White (Ambassador) called on Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke to stop the country’s “unacceptable harassment of the Jewish community” and deregulate the ritual, which is commonly done in many countries and has documented health benefits.
“It’s 2026, you need to get into the 21st century and allow our brethren Jewish families in Belgium to legally execute their religious freedoms!” he wrote.
In some Orthodox communities, they also perform a ritual involving the mohel orally copulating the infant post circumcision, to remove congested blood, leading at times to an oral herpes infection.
Belgium police, raided locations in Antwerp, where about 20,000 Orthdox/Haredi community is concentrated in the city center, around the diamond district, and continue to practice Haredi/Orthodox traditions.
Looks like the practice is legal in the US.
US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White has called on the country to drop all investigations against three mohels (individuals who perform circumcision) arrested last summer in a raid, calling the case antisemitic in a sharply worded post on X.
In May, police in Antwerp rounded up mohels suspected of illegally conducting the ritual Jewish circumcisions. Officials conducted early morning raids on three locations in Antwerp’s Jewish Quarter and nearby Green Quarter seeking knives and other equipment used in circumcisions, according to reports at the time.
Three mohels have been charged for performing a medical intervention without a medical license, and prosecutors now believe they have enough evidence to get a conviction, Belgian MP Michael Freilich, the country’s only Orthodox Jewish lawmaker, told The Times of Israel. A trial date has not yet been set, he said, noting it may take several months to do so.
Indicating that he had the backing of US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other leading officials, White (Ambassador) called on Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke to stop the country’s “unacceptable harassment of the Jewish community” and deregulate the ritual, which is commonly done in many countries and has documented health benefits.
“It’s 2026, you need to get into the 21st century and allow our brethren Jewish families in Belgium to legally execute their religious freedoms!” he wrote.
In some Orthodox communities, they also perform a ritual involving the mohel orally copulating the infant post circumcision, to remove congested blood, leading at times to an oral herpes infection.
