Germany is encouraging people to wear skullcaps to show solidarity with its Jewish population after a rise in anti-Semitic incidents, the Euro News website reports today (May 28, 2019).
Anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein warned Germany's Jews against wearing the caps -- known as kippahs or yarmulkes -- following the anti-Semitism spike in parts of the country.
Speaking to Funke media group, Klein said he could not "advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany."
Klein's kippah comments were not taken lightly, as Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he was "shocked" by them, adding that such a suggestion was a "capitulation to anti-Semitism."
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