Germany – The Genocidal State!

In an online seminar on 5 March 2026, the Palestinian academic Abdaljawad Omar reflected on several universal insights, which have come to light as a result of the ongoing Genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza. His second universal insight focused on a truth, which has always been there, but has only now come to light for everybody to see. Israel's brutality against the Palestinian people has, of course, always been there at least since the Nakba in 1948. It is now that it is openly permitted to act like a monster, attacking indiscriminately schools, hospitals, universities and locations of worship. However, it is not only permitted by the international order to carry out these heinous acts considered by organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to constitute genocide. Israel is actually supported by Western countries. The liberal order committed to universal human rights has always only been partial. What many observers always knew can no longer be denied. While the liberal order pretends, the authoritarian order underneath the liberal mask does not. In view of the ongoing genocide, pretending is no longer possible. The mask has been removed and while the language remains the same, is still the language of the mask, everybody can now see through it. What does this imply for Germany and its continuing support of Israel?

 

Facilitating genocide – the UK’s role in the Middle East

In December 2024, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK parliament invited contributions to an enquiry about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this guest post, Andreas Wittel publishes his response to that enquiry, highlighting the UK’s deep complicity in the ongoing genocide by Israel of the Palestinian people.