Jewish organizations in Belgium on Wednesday condemned as ‘’outrageous’’ remarks made be the head of the regional Brussels government, Rudi Vervoort, who compared a measure to deprive citizenship of those convicted of acts of terrorism to the Nazi regime.

‘’It is a recipe that was used by the Germans and the Vichy (collaborationist) regime towards the Jews ho were not consider as full citizens,’’ Vervoort said in an interview with the Belgian daily L’Echo.
CCOJB, the umbrella group of Belgian Jewish organizations in Belgium (CCOJB), described the remarks, made as the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, as '' outrageous and scandalous ''. 'To compare a measure taken to fight jihadists who claim to be enemies of the West with measures taken by the Vichy government against the Jews is unbearable,'' said the Jewish organization '' This suggests that persecuted Jews during the Second World War were also enemies of the West, '' it said, calling on the the Socialist Party, of which Vervoort is a member, to react to this ‘’historical confusion and insult to the Jewish people and humanity. ''