Scholz has adopted a more robust tone towards Israel, but his message is lost in vague language
German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock: 'We stand for humanitarian international law; that too is a lesson of our history.' Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Imagesadopted a more robust tone, questioning the “terribly high costs” of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Speaking in English, he added: “We cannot let Palestinians risk starvation.”
Amid legal challenges and famine warnings, Baerbock told the Bundestag her strategy on Israel-Gaza was framed by a remark whispered to her by the parent of an Israeli hostage: “My dear child...will not get through this if in Gaza another mother loses their child.” While Germany has boosted aid support to Palestinians since October, its reported ten-fold increase in arms exports to Israel may have legal consequences. Nicaragua has filed a case at the International Court of Justice that accuses Germany of “facilitating” genocide in Gaza on the basis of the 1948 convention.
Egyptian visual artist Mohamed Abla; he handed back in protest a medal awarded to him by the Goethe Institute. Photograph: Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP via Getty Images At a meeting last week ministers agreed to work towards “legally admissible rules with the goal that no projects and initiatives are funded that pursue anti-Semitic, racist or other inhumane goals”. It remains unclear, however, how such a goal can be achieved given the ministers have yet to adopt any official definition of anti-Semitism, with two competing international definitions doing the rounds.
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