Bundestag President Norbert Lammert criticized Israel's government on Tuesday at the Conference of European Rabbis in Berlin.

Lammert voiced his criticism when asked whether he thought the BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) movement was a disguise for anti-Semitism.

"From time to time there are disguised political statements, but to be frank, there is a similar temptation on the part of the Israeli government that receives all criticism against it as anti-Semitism," he said.

On Jews in Europe, Lammert told the rabbis that despite the fact that there are instances of anti-Semitism, Germany is the safest place on the continent for Jews.

Lammert said he feels a personal responsibility to the way Germany relates to its past and its responsibility in the future.

"I am personally concerned regarding the lives of the Jews in Germany and, in the light of the events of the past, that it be a flourishing community," he said, adding that no one believed that Germany would once again have a large Jewish community as it does now."

On anti-Semitism in Europe, Lammert said that Germany was committed to combat the phenomenon.

On Germany's role he said: "Once there was an an anti-Semitic country, but today there is a country that acts against anti-Semitism."

Lammert addressed the Knesset in June of last year.

At the time, he said that Germany opposes the “unwise” European Commission decision to label products from the West Bank, Golan and Jerusalem.

Lammert called the labeling “unnecessary and unwise.”

“Germany not only didn’t agree to the decision, it rejected it,” Lammert said.

But, Lammert said, “it doesn’t come from anti-Semitism. We have to understand the situation in the occupied territories is complicated, because of international law.”

When asked whether the EU’s not having called to label products from places like Tibet or Crimea or the Western Sahara was an indication of anti-Semitism, Lammert said he could “understand Israel’s anger.”

“Germany can imagine a better law, if it were to apply to everyone, on principle, to all occupied land,” he added.

“Because it’s specifically against Israel, I repeat that it is unnecessary and not very smart.”

By DANA SOMBERG. Lahav Harkov contributed to this report.