Germany has shown that it is willing to undermine international law and bend human rights principles in defence of what many countries increasingly view as indefensible. It has failed to convince the world that it is a beacon of diplomacy. Instead, it has exposed the very historical liabilities it has spent decades trying to overcome.

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Through its violent treatment of protesters, punishment of journalists who critique hegemonic state rhetoric, and the stripping of citizenship from Palestinians, Germany’s position does not simply mirror broader international complicity - it intensifies and legitimises it through that very same language of historical responsibility.

It has become, in Germany’s telling, historically responsible to support genocide again.