Youssef Kobo, an adviser on tolerance and diversity to the minister of the Brussels Capital region in charge of equal opportunities, offered to resign after a series of Facebook posts attacking Israel.
Kobo offered to resign after finding he could no longer fulfill his duties, a ministry spokesperson told the Belgian news site 'Het Laatste Nieuws'.
Earlier this year, the 28-year-old had apologized for his 2014 Facebook posts in which he called Israel a modern version of Nazi Germany and “an identical twin” of ISIS.
However, in recent days the Belgian media discovered earlier tweets in which Kobo proposed to slaughter activists working to prevent the ritual slaughter of animals.
“What if we compromise on slaughtering Gaia-activists instead of sheep?” he wrote, later dismissing the post as an inappropriate joke. Gaia is the mythological spirit of Earth.
Kobo had referenced the Islamic State in posting a caricature of Israel cutting the throat of the Gaza Strip, where Israel in the summer of 2014 carried out strikes against Hamas. Kobo said of a video of Israeli troops: “21st century Nazis.”
Joel Rubinfeld, the president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, said Kobo’s statements make him unfit to advise on tolerance and especially on anti-Semitism. “He can’t be both fireman and fire starter,” Rubinfeld told the newspaper 'La Capitale'.
