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While Germany is generally safe for Jews, Jewish men should be careful before donning a skullcap in public, the country’s incoming anti-Semitism czar said, echoing controversial remarks from a top German Jewish leader amid a rise in anti-Semitic attacks, mostly from Muslim immigrants.
In an interview with The Times of Israel, Dr. Felix Klein also said the recent increase in anti-Semitic violence on German streets is due to a “brutalization of our political culture,” and argued that the beating of an Israeli last week in Berlin proved that German Jews’ concerns about the major influx of Muslim and Arab refugees were legitimate.
Calls for the boycott of Israel and denouncing the country as an “apartheid state” can be considered anti-Semitic, Klein, who is not Jewish, said further. On the other hand, the far-right nationalist Alternative for Germany party — shunned by Jerusalem and Germany’s organized Jewish community — has problematic views of the Nazi era but cannot be considered anti-Semitic as a whole, he argued.