Rabbi Menachem Margolin, General Director of the European Jewish Association and the Rabbinical Center of Europe, has denounced Mr. Schuster’s reported comments and emphasized that: “This is a dangerous statement that was better left unsaid. The call for Jews to hide their identity instead of calling upon European Governments to provide all the necessary resources in order to battle anti-Semitism is irresponsible. Had this statement been by a non-Jew, he would be accused of anti-Semitism. We hope and expect that Mr. Schuster will clarify or retract his unproductive and damaging statement.”

Rabbi Margolin’s statement came in response to reports that the President of Germany’s Central Council of Jews had advised Germany’s historic Jewish community to conceal their Jewish identity in potentially dangerous neighborhoods, as a reaction to a rise in anti-Semitic sentiment in the country.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)