A few days ago the only words that Germany’s Commissioner for Anti-Semitism could say regarding the alarming rise in antisemitism in the country was to tell Jews to stop wearing the kippah and to hide their religion. This is not an answer to the problem which the government has been aiding and abetting through its actions and turning a blind eye to the antisemitism, which largely comes from left wing groups and Moslem immigrants, with only a small contribution from right wing extremists. Following an international outcry and after the Bild newspaper printed a cut-out kippah for everyone to wear in solidarity with Jews, the Commissioner has done an about face and now advises people to wear the kippah. This whole episode is disgraceful and shows that only 70 years after Germany murdered 6 million Jews it has learned nothing and is not willing to do anything to prevent the next Holocaust. [Photograph: Bild’s cut-out kippah.]