Remove hook-nose sign language gesture, Jewish group demands

Calls for 'racist and humiliating' gesture to be removed from online guide to Flemish signing

An organisation representing Jewish communities in Europe are demanding the removal of a "racist and humiliating" depiction of Jews as having large hooked noses from an online dictionary of Flemish sign language.

The portrayal is one of more than 10,000 signs on a visual online guide recognised by the Flemish government as a "knowledge and coordination centre" for sign language in the Flanders region of Belgium.