Germany’s propaganda war in support of Nazi Zionists and their genocide in Gaza
Jürgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a temporary Professor for the Structure of modern societies at the University of Erfurt, Germany and a visiting professor for Political Sociology at Humboldt University Berlin. His latest books include On Social Closure. Theorizing Exclusion, Exploitation, and Elimination (Oxford University Press 2024). Siedlerkolonialismus. Grundlagentexte und aktuelle Analysen (edited with Ilan Pappe; Nomos 2024).
Cross-posted from Middle East Monitor
Germany’s complicity in the boundless cruelty of the genocide in Gaza, its unconditional support for the ongoing Nakba in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, and its backing of Zionist wars of aggression against Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran have led to a dramatic collapse of political integrity among the country’s leadership — both in its international obligations and in its respect for its own citizens.
Having made itself an accomplice of the Zionist regime, Germany’s highest representatives have adopted its “political” style, pursuing policies that lack decency and drift ever further from democratic ideals.
Former German political leadership: Lies about a non-existing video
In summer 2024 both former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and former German chancellor Olaf Scholz claimed publicly to have seen a video showing Hamas fighters raping Israeli women on 7 October 2023. No such video has ever been produced.
It was difficult to imagine that this deliberate misleading of the German public would soon be overshadowed by even more brazen actions on the part of Germany’s highest representatives. Yet since then, political decency and integrity have eroded further
Last week Johann Wadepuhl, Germany’s foreign minister, who unconditionally follows the Zionist regime, proved willing to adopt the repugnant strategy of smear campaigns that have long been one of Israel’s most popular strategies against human rights and civil society organisations.
In the same manner as his Zionist counterparts, and alongside his French colleague, Wadepuhl demanded the resignation of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. This followed a claim by French politician Caroline Yadan that Albanese had called Israel “the common enemy of humanity” at the Al Jazeera Forum in Qatar on 7 February, a statement Yadan described as anti-Semitic and indefensible
However, Albanese had said:
“We who do not control large amounts of financial capitals, algorithms and weapons. We now see that we as a humanity have a common enemy”
This statement is simply true – even if the European foreign ministers do not agree.
Wadepuhl and his ministry apparently saw no reason to verify the accuracy of the source. Delighted that another EU foreign minister had slandered and accused Albanese of anti-Semitism, the minister, in a typically German Pavlovian reflex, jumped on the bandwagon of anti-Semitic denunciation.
This attempted character assassination, based on a misrepresentation of Albanese’s words, represents one of the most troubling episodes in recent German foreign policy. Baerbock’s lies pale in comparison.
The president of the Bundestag as an agent of Zionist propaganda
When Julia Klöckner, the President of the German Bundestag and “a friend” of the Zionist regime went to visit them from February 10 to 12, it became clear how far even the second most important representative of the German state is willing to humiliate herself in the service of the war criminals.
Klöckner appeared on the German public television station ARD, standing somewhere on the Yellow Line – the front line of the ongoing genocide – submissively repeating the IOF’s- (Israeli Occupation Forces) – war propaganda. Her entire report was not only an official silence on the genocide, but also a sign of intellectual poverty.
Klöckner said:
“One sees settlements, one sees tents and houses that are destroyed and that are not destroyed. Of course, I looked upon a part that is not as destroyed as other parts, because many of the hostages have been hidden there.”
Really? Does Klöckner seriously want to convince Germans that she can see houses that were not destroyed during the Zionists’ perverse air raids because Israeli prisoners were held there? So the Zionists knew all along that they were there and didn’t free them but chose to destroy everything else?
She continues:
“What you also recognise, of course, is an incredible underground tunnel system, which is like a second Gaza”.
Really? How can Klöckner recognise a tunnel system when she is standing somewhere on the Yellow Line looking towards Gaza? Was she in one of these tunnels? Can she at least show a single picture of the tunnel system? Or a short video? Nothing — without any evidence, Klöckner makes a claim that Germans are expected to believe.
Regrettably, this is the same “political” level as when the Israeli military, after destroying hospitals in Gaza, claimed that medical staff work schedules were lists of Hamas fighters’ names.
And finally, to make it even worse:
“What we have heard and also received confirmation of from the International Red Cross, with whom I have spoken, is that since the Yellow Line has been in place, there has been a cessation of shooting and fighting, there has also been an increase in the amount of aid supplies, i.e., food, coming into the Gaza Strip, and medicine too, but medical equipment is getting through very slowly due to the regulations on dual-use goods. … And on the other hand, we also see that Hamas fighters are sending their own people ahead, letting them suffer, and not necessarily sending them to places where they would be better off.”
Really? Despite Klöckner’s distortion of the facts, the world knows that Israel is committing genocide and that it continues even after what the West calls a “ceasefire.” The world knows that the Zionists are blocking aid deliveries, whether food, water, tents, or medicine.
But Klöckner spreads propaganda about the end of “hostilities” and repeats the IOF’s mendacious claims about dual-use goods as if she had been trained by them – and of course she talks nonsense about Hamas letting the Palestinians suffer – what is Klöckner talking about. Yet, she doesn’t say anything about those who dropped the bombs on Palestinians and evaporated thousands of them?
What a pathetic kind of propaganda in the service of the genocidal regime.
German policy towards Israel, the world and the German people has reached an absolutely deplorable level.
With this course, Germany is turning into “Little Israel” — always ready to play what critics describe as the hypocritical anti-Semitism card — just as the Israel lobby expects from the country’s leadership, which appears only too willing to do so.
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