Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, has condemned the exclusion of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra with Israeli conductor Lahav Shani from a Belgian music festival as "pure anti-Semitism." "The musicians, visitors and sponsors of the festival come from all over the world. Yet the conductor from Israel is the one who is excluded - this is pure anti-Semitism," Prosor said in an interview with the Funke Media Group newspapers published on Friday. A statement by the Flanders Festival Ghent published on Wednesday said the cancellation was based on Shani's role as chief conductor of the Is...