We are currently witnessing the bloodiest war in Israel-Palestine in decades. At least 1,200 people, mainly Israeli citizens, were killed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and at least 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army since. Yet most of my colleagues in the German parliament, the Bundestag, seem capable of expressing empathy and solidarity for only one side.

The Palestinian people’s suffering appears to be of no interest to the political establishment in Germany. There are hardly any words of sympathy, no memorial events for the thousands of children and young people murdered in Gaza, and certainly no call for the Israeli government to end the war. Nor is there any reconsideration of Germany’s political support for the Netanyahu government — a support expressed not only in the language of “unconditional solidarity,” but also with deliveries of weapons and ammunition.

The “values-driven foreign policy” the German Foreign Ministry has talked so much about in recent years is nowhere to seen. The current situation represents a declaration of German politics’ moral bankruptcy — and exposes its double standards.