The Jew occupies an oblique outsider position even in Belgium’s linguistic contest.

Evidence

It reflects the old joke about a pitched battle between French and Dutch speakers in Belgium during the 1960s in which both sides are separated by the police, who order the Walloons to one side of the street and the Flemish to the other. A Jew walks up to a policeman and asks: “And where do we Belgians go?” The answer, in the discourse of contemporary multiculturalism, is: any place you want but not here. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 730

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘where do we Belgians go?’ joke is a compact, shareable illustration of the Jew as universal third party.