Most Jewish communities in Germany cried foul after a head of Germany's Jewish Council suggested that Jews should not wear their traditional kippa (skullcap) in areas which are being dominated by Muslims.

Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said over Inforadio on Thursday that Jews in Germany need to observe security measures although they are generally safe in Germany.

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"It really makes sense to identify oneself as a Jew by wearing a kippa, for example, or whether it is better to wear different headgear there," Schuster said.

These statements of Schuster, however, raised many worries and even irked many European Jews.

The head of the European Jewish Association and the Rabbinical Center of Europe, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, said that Schuster should not make such kind of statements because it is inclined to Semitism.

"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," Margolin lamented. "If this statement was made by a non-Jew, he would be considered an anti-Semite."

The German Government has been the center of criticisms among European Jewish people for creating an anti-Semitism commission without a single Jewish representative.

"Nobody would even think of creating a conference on hatred of Islam without Muslims or a round table on the discrimination of women without women," said Anetta Kahane of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation Against Anti-Semitism.

Julius Schoeps of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies also slammed the absence of Jewish representative in the commission which is "supposed to support Jews in Germany."

The opposition averred that they will create a parallel commission that will attend to the ideas and perspectives of the Jewish people.

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