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Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner urges debate on Israel stance

The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner has called for a more honest debate on the country’s stance towards Israel in light of its actions in the Gaza Strip.

Germany sees Israel’s security as a “reason of state” – a phrase alluding to Berlin’s historical responsibility to the state of Israel following the Holocaust.

The concept, like Israel’s right to exist, is essential to Germany’s self-understanding and its relationship with Israel, Felix Klein told the Sunday edition of the national daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in comments released on Saturday. But, he noted, the term is also vague.

“We must do everything in our power to preserve the security of Israel and Jews worldwide,” he said. “But we must also make it clear that this does not justify everything.”

Starving Palestinians and deliberately worsening the humanitarian situation has nothing to do with securing Israel’s right to exist, he added.

And actively makes Israel's security worse as well as endangers the lives of Jews worldwide. As I have been noticing last week, the actual Nazis are coming out, blaming all Jews for what's happening in Gaza. At least these new hateful comments are denounced as much as the open Muslim hatred. You tube just censors Israel criticism.


Australia must take a stronger stance on Israel’s aid blockade on Gaza, Labor MP says

Ed Husic, a lawmaker and former minister with Australia’s governing Labor Party, has criticised the government’s stance on Israel’s blockade on Gaza, and said Australia should have joined the joint statement by the United Kingdom, France and Canada threatening to take “concrete actions” against Israel if it does not lift restrictions on aid.

“Right now, Australia can and should be doing more: for starters, we should be calling in the Israeli ambassador to Australia to express the unequivocal demand we share with other nations that the Israeli government must provide for the immediate freer, rapid flow of humanitarian aid, not the ‘basic’ level currently permitted to trickle in,” Husic wrote for The Guardian.

“[The statement by the UK, France and Canada] is a further sign that many of our good friends in the international community remain aghast at the treatment of innocent civilians in Gaza. It was an important stand by them. Australia could have proudly joined them. We didn’t.”

Husic, who was the minister for industry and science between 2022 and 2025, is the first Muslim to be elected to federal parliament, as well as to become a minister.