yeah really Interesting to see Germany reaffirming its commitment to Israel amidst controversy over the Gaza offensive. How does this align with Germany’s human rights record?
Germany swung right in the last election, AfD have been making gains for about a decade, things will probably continue to get worse until they can swing the opposite direction. If they can.
I frankly don’t see how this has to do anything with anything. Merz has also openly criticised Israel and, at least briefly, halted arms exports to them. It’s also news to me that being pro-Israel is a (far-)right thing in Germany.
For obvious reasons, Israel and Jews in general are a very touchy topic in Germany and German politics. Until the recent developments in Gaza, it was really hard to find any politician at all that would speak critical of Israel. That is probably because Israel and their institutions tend to respond very harshly to any criticism, and whatever you would said was guaranteed to backfire.
This has somewhat changed since it became hard to deny they are doing some pretty fucked up stuff over there. Blocking arms sales to Israel, even ever so briefly, could be described as a monumental policy shift from the formerly near-unconditional support that Israel was used to.
Being pro-Israel is a far right thing everywhere, because being far right involved racial and religious supremacy, in the case of western nations that means pro-white and anti-islam. Even China has enabled Israel by vetoing ceasefires in March 2024 and abstaining from the more recent UNSC vote.
Do not conflate Jewish people and Israel, that is what Israel wants.
The atrocities in Gaza and Westbank, and Jordan and even Iran (although Iran dictatorship are also a bunch of bags of dicks themselves), have certainly escalated but they are ongoing and were not brief in any definition because Palestine has been constantly shrinking since the very start.
yeah really Interesting to see Germany reaffirming its commitment to Israel amidst controversy over the Gaza offensive. How does this align with Germany’s human rights record?
Genocide.
Germany swung right in the last election, AfD have been making gains for about a decade, things will probably continue to get worse until they can swing the opposite direction. If they can.
I frankly don’t see how this has to do anything with anything. Merz has also openly criticised Israel and, at least briefly, halted arms exports to them. It’s also news to me that being pro-Israel is a (far-)right thing in Germany.
For obvious reasons, Israel and Jews in general are a very touchy topic in Germany and German politics. Until the recent developments in Gaza, it was really hard to find any politician at all that would speak critical of Israel. That is probably because Israel and their institutions tend to respond very harshly to any criticism, and whatever you would said was guaranteed to backfire.
This has somewhat changed since it became hard to deny they are doing some pretty fucked up stuff over there. Blocking arms sales to Israel, even ever so briefly, could be described as a monumental policy shift from the formerly near-unconditional support that Israel was used to.
Being pro-Israel is a far right thing everywhere, because being far right involved racial and religious supremacy, in the case of western nations that means pro-white and anti-islam. Even China has enabled Israel by vetoing ceasefires in March 2024 and abstaining from the more recent UNSC vote.
Do not conflate Jewish people and Israel, that is what Israel wants.
The atrocities in Gaza and Westbank, and Jordan and even Iran (although Iran dictatorship are also a bunch of bags of dicks themselves), have certainly escalated but they are ongoing and were not brief in any definition because Palestine has been constantly shrinking since the very start.