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Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies

Cover of POMEPS SI on 'The War on Gaza and Middle East Political Science'
Benjamin Schuetze
POMEPS
2024

Since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on January 26, 2024, it is official that Germany, the perpetrator of the largest genocide ever deliberately executed, is one of the primary supporters of what the principal judicial organ of the United Nation has described as plausibly amounting to genocide. German support for Israel’s onslaught on Gaza stretches from an intervention in front of the ICJ; a 10-fold increase of German military exports to Israel, including tank ammunition; an unparalleled crackdown on pro-Palestine protests due to ‘possible antisemitism’; the decision to not approve new funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza in light of unsubstantiated Israeli claims that employees had aided Hamas; and the assurance of unconditional support for Israel by effectively the entire German political elite – as expressed in the unanimous parliamentary approval of a motion that assures Israel of Germany’s ‘full solidarity and any support needed’....