Engagements

In December 2025, I have been a founding member of AJC ACCESS Europe. AJC ACCESS Europe is the American Jewish Committee’s young professional division for adults aged 25–35, empowering emerging Jewish leaders across Europe to advocate on the critical issues facing the Jewish community. Through ACCESS, participants play an active role in AJC’s core mission and help build direct relationships between young Jewish leaders and their peers around the world.

In April 2024, I was in Izieu, France, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the roundup at the Maison d’Izieu, where my grandfather was hidden in 1943.

On April 6, 1944, the lives of 44 children and 7 educators were abruptly cut short, simply because they were born Jewish. Among them were my grandfather’s friend, Marcel Bulka, and his little brother Albert (Coco), who was 4 years old.

These commemorations were also an opportunity to pay tribute to Sabine and Miron Zlatin, who were instrumental in rescuing the Jewish children who passed through Izieu. It is thanks to them that I am here today.

As the grandson of a child of Izieu, I was honored by the presence of President Emmanuel Macron and the President of the French National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, at these commemorations. I was also deeply moved by the speech of the German Minister of Culture, Claudia Roth. Her words still resonate with me and inspire me.

Together, and for the future, we will not forget.

In 2017, I carried out a personal project to honour the memory of Holocaust victims in my hometown of Liège. I launched a crowdfunding campaign to install six Stolpersteine (Holocaust memory pads) commemorating the Nemeth family, who were murdered during the Holocaust, only Frieda survived.

The project aimed to remind people that the Holocaust was not confined to Poland or Germany, but also affected our own streets here in Belgium.

I presented the project to local school pupils and organized an official ceremony at the Liège City Hall attended by students, survivors, members of the local Jewish community, and Mrs. Christine Defraigne, President of the Belgian Senate at the time.

The initiative received widespread positive media coverage, including television and radio features, highlighting both the ceremony and the project as a whole.

Television report Facebook page

I was elected in October 2024 to the City Council of Forest (Brussels), where I will sit until 2030, defending the colours of the list MR + DéFI.

« I define myself as an engaged citizen, concerned with the evolution of our society. Public life fascinates me: its functioning, its challenges, its history.

I believe in a progressive society that empowers individuals, where education and work open up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities, where the neutrality of the state is fundamental, and where diversity can be promoted without sliding into the excesses of sectarianism.

I fight for a society that protects its most precious asset, democracy, and that stands against extremism, because when extremism spreads, democracy retreats. »

In June 2024, I ran for the Regional Elections in Brussels. I was on the 24th position on the list of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). 2132 people casted the ballot with my name. I got the 17th score of the party and the 88th among all candidates from political parties.

WJC JDCorps is the flagship program of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). This program empowers the new generations Jewish leaders and is a highly selective worldwide network of over 300 members from 50 countries. WJC JDCorps’ objective is to represent and strengthen the Jewish communities, ensuring their strong voice in global affairs today – and for decades to come.

WJC JDCorps Meeting with Katharina von Schnurbein, European Commission Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life, WJC Headquarters, New York, June 2022.

On September 25, 2024, I addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where I emphasized the importance of combating antisemitism on European university campuses.

Speech at the UNHRC

In 2019, I was elected to the Board of the Coordinating Committee of Belgian Jewish Organisations (Comité de Coordination des Organisations Juives de Belgique – CCOJB). The CCOJB serves as the national umbrella organisation for Jewish institutions in Belgium and represents the country within both the World Jewish Congress and the European Jewish Congress.

In 2022, I began a second term as an Executive Board member and was appointed Secretary General of the organisation.

In 2025, I was elected Vice President of the CCOJB.