Look. I went and listened to the speech again, because I don’t want people to claim that I’m spreading misinformation here.

What I gathered from his speech, the main points:

1. antisemitism is bad. Yes, every single moral human being should agree with that. Hating people based on their ethnicity and other traits they cannot change is absolutely never acceptable.
2. people should condemn acts of terrorism. Again, yes. I fully agree with that. Killing innocents is absolutely never acceptable, be it terrorism or not. It’s horrible.
3. the right is holding back from attacking jews. I agree with that, but I don’t think it’s the time and place for these comments. He’s talking about horrific acts of terrorism, he’s talking about the fear some people live with right now and at the same time he’s talking his opposition. It feels like he’s hijacking the situation for political points and feels insensitive
4. iran is somehow behind this. I don’t think anyone has produced any evidence regarding that yet which just makes it sound like a weird conspiracy theory, and again, it feels out of place for a speech about antisemitism and acts of violence against innocents
5. he’s doing everything he can along his American partners to protect the lives of civillians in Gaza. This is where it’s getting nasty in my opinion. The US has vetoed a call for a ceasefire in the UN security council. That is definitely not what I’d consider to count as “protecting the lives of civillians”. And the fact taht he associates with the US here is even worse, since they were the only ones to veto any form of intervention on the side of the UN. This is why I left my original comment. I guess it was fairly inflamatory of me to comment that, but it felt extremely insensitive to see him say that while looking at the reality of the situation on the ground in Gaza right now, with so many innocents dying. Just “making sure water and medicine gets to Gaza” won’t save those kids from being blown to pieces. Mind you, the water, food, electricity, and medicine that was cut off from these civillians by Israel in the first place. Not only that, but he goes as far as to say that he is reminding Israel of their commitment to international law, BUT no one expects that from Hamas… I’m sorry? He is literally relativising the deaths of civillians here just because Hamas are a bunch of fucking genocidal maniacs. He is litearlly adding a BUT after saying how Israel should respect human rights. You can’t make this shit up. There should be absolutely no buts after talking about respecting human rights.
6. all muslims in Germany are expected to publicly denounce Hamas. This one is straight up weird. It’s like asking all jews to publicly denounce Israel for bombing kids. Hamas, a terrorist organization, doesn’t represent all muslims and it’s straight up racist to expect every muslim to talk about whatever Hamas is doing. Which brings me to the next point I gathered from his speech
7. Germany has to support to Israel. Here he starts equating all jews with Israel somehow. Which is again, straight up weird, and partly antisemitic. Jews aren’t all the property of Israel. Just as not all muslims are the property of Hamas. Treating an entire ethnic group as a monolithic collective is extremely problematic to me. I am partly jewish and german-romanian and do not agree with that. I feel more German and Romanian than I feel Israeli. I’ve never been to Israel and wouldn’t call Israel my home country. Even though I could get an israeli citizenship any day by proof of my ancestors and gain access to live in a land my ancestors didn’t even know to point on a map probably. With that being said, I fully support helping civillians affected by violence everywhere, anywhere, on all sides of this horrible conflict. I fully support the fight against antisemitism and stand by it, and stood by it for ages now. But offering critique of Israel is somehow problematic. One can easily condemn acts of terrorism while also putting them in a historical context. That doesn’t mean you are relativising anything. One can condemn the state of Israel for the shit they’re doing to civillians in Gaza and the West Bank. I know he also says that everyone is allowed to criticize Israel, but for some reason his government falls short of doing so. Sure, individual civillians can, but I’d expect government officials with a spine to actually do it too when they see all the completely unjust suffering in Gaza right now.
8. the two state solution. He then briefly mentions the two state solution, but falls short of going deeper into that highly complex subject. He throws all the blame on Hamas here while conveniently ignoring that Israel is also straight up refusing the two state solution, just as Hamas does. Not only that, but Israel even has hopes in expanding their illegal settlements (which he of course briefly criticizes, but again, not much substance there). This can be easily found in their government’s policy guidelines where they clearly state that “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria.”. Germany is hereby supporting a full on far-right theocratic regime of ultraorthodox lunatics that are openly calling for the expansion of their lands in the detriment of the innocent civillians living there that happen to be non-jewish.

I’d rather have a Germany that works towards a humanitarian solution, not a Germany that is straight up supporting some very horrible people and supports the US in blocking any kind of UN intervention. I don’t mind calling out antisemitism, I’ve been doing that my entire life. And I have read more than enough books on jewish history, dug through archives to learn about my great great grandparents that died in the holocaust, and much more. I don’t mind calling out terrorism either, every sane human should. But I very much mind this kind of rhetoric towards unconditional support for a far-right expansionist regime. Especially one represented by a far-right religious zionist coalition, that claims that some biblical lands that currently happen to be under palestinian control should be owned by them because their book says so. Here you can read more about them. Is this really who we want to throw our unconditional support at? A cabinet filled with people like Itamar Ben-Gvir that literally has a poster of a terrorist that killed a bunch of people in his office? The guy that put a billbioard of arab opposition politicians in a town and called for their expulsion? Man I’m so over this. Believe what you want. I voted green for a reason. Now I don’t know who to vote for anymore. I sure as hell don’t want to vote for the putinists further left, and the more right you go than the greens the worse it gets.