Thread: Israel "Shocked" After Germany Warns Jews Not To Wear Skullcaps

Israel "Shocked" After Germany Warns Jews Not To Wear Skullcaps



Felix Klein said he couldn't "recommend to Jews that they wear the skullcap at all times everywhere in Germany."

Sun, 05/26/2019 - 22:00
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Germany's top official on anti-Semitism has caused a stir by saying that he would not advise Jews wear skullcaps in certain parts of the country, according to AP.
Felix Klein said in an interview published Saturday that his "opinion has unfortunately changed compared with what it used to be" and that he couldn't "recommend to Jews that they wear the skullcap at all times everywhere in Germany."
He also said German police were not familiar with how to deal with anti-Semitic crimes:

Many of them don’t know what's allowed and what's not. There is a clear definition of anti-Semitism and cops should be taught it during their training."

He didn't elaborate further on details of what he meant, including what times and places he was referring to. Germany is home to about 100,000 Jewish citizens, according to Haaretz.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Sunday that he was "shocked" by the comment:

"The statement of the German government's anti-Semitism commissioner that it would be preferable for Jews not wear a kippa in Germany out of fear for their safety, shocked me deeply."

He continued:

"We will never submit, will never lower our gaze and will never react to anti-Semitism with defeatism — and expect and demand our allies act in the same way."

The country's main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, also said last year that he "would advise people visiting big cities against wearing Jewish skullcaps". He continued:

"It has long been a fact that Jews are potentially exposed to danger in some big cities if they can be recognized as Jews." He added that he pointed that out two years ago, "so it is to be welcomed if this situation gets more attention at the highest political level."

Three years before that, he also cautioned against wearing one in areas with large Muslim populations. His comments in years prior have been met with criticism from religious leaders in Israel. The country's chief rabbi, David Lau, said that "skullcaps are a Jewish symbol they should continue to bear proudly."

Last April, Germans wore skullcaps in protest of an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin. Meanwhile, statistics from the German government show that the number of anti-Semitic incidents grew in Germany last year, despite an overall drop in politically motivated crimes.

The German Federal Ministry of the Interior says there has been growth of 20% in anti-Semitic crimes in the country. Extreme right-wing activists were responsible for 90% of the 1,800 incidents in 2018.

Michel Friedman, former vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said: "When an official government representative tells the Jewish community they can't be protected from violence, it's a show of poverty for Germany's legal and political reality."

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German Government Tells Jews: Don't Look Like Jews
According to Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism,…

“Assuredly, All who wanted to devour you shall be devoured, And every one of your foes shall go into captivity; Those who despoiled you shall be despoiled, And all who pillaged you I will give up to pillage.” Jeremiah 30:16 (The Israel Bible™)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed growing anti-Semitism in Germany, admitting that Jews are not safe in her country.
“Unfortunately there is to this day not a single synagogue, not a single day care center for Jewish children, not a single school for Jewish children that does not need to be guarded by German policemen,” Merkel said in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“There has always been a certain number of anti-Semites among us, Unfortunately,” Merkel added, making reference to her country’s Nazi history.
“In Germany, obviously, they always have to be seen in a certain context, in the context of our past, which means we have to be that much more vigilant than others,” she said, emphasizing that Germany has to face”the specters of our past” and that “we have to tell our young people what history has brought over us and others, and these horrors… why we have to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes and why we stand up against intolerance and why we show no tolerance towards violations of human rights.”
Official figures showed 1,646 hate crimes against Jews were committed in 2018 – an increase of 10% on the previous year. Physical attacks against Jews in Germany also rose in the same period, with 62 violent incidents recorded, up from 37 in 2017. Jerusalem Post reported that according to the German Ministry of the Interior, “right-wing extremists committed 90% of the 1,800 incidents in 2018. The real number of Islamic-animated antisemitic attacks in Germany is not well documented due to authorities characterizing Islamic antisemitism as right-wing antisemitism.”
Merkel’s statements come just a few days after Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein warned Jews that it may be dangerous to wear yarmulkes in public.
The U.S. Ambassador to Germany responded in a tweet, calling on all people, Jews and non-Jews, to wear kippas.

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