Since Israel attacked Iran, German media outlets & journalists of all political persuasions have started questioning international law and or heralding a new age where the law of the strongest applies in international relationships.
A thread to which I will keep adding / 1
2. The ex editor of Bild, now at far-right website NIUS
3. Colum in center-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung
4. The UK & Anglosphere correspondent of Die Zeit (high-brow, centrist)
5. The economics correspondent of the same Die Zeit
6. German state-funded television network & international broadcaster DW
[Given the many Germanophobic reactions, a few clarifications (which should really go without saying):
- no, not all columnists and journalists argue that way
- yes, there have been calls for respecting international law
- no this doesn't mean Germans are Nazis]
7. Private TV ntv, on its website n-tv.de/politik/politi…
8. Right-wing daily Welt calls for an end to the government's "fennel tea diplomacy" which it sees as not supportive of Israel enough, and too preoccupied with international law
9. Another column in centrist, high-brow German magazine Die Zeit denouncing "intolerable, one-sided" appeals to international law behind which "murderers are hiding"
zeit.de/kultur/2025-06…
10. Another column in Die Zeit lamenting "the bigoted incantation "international law! International law!" which "has nothing to do with a civilised political debate "
zeit.de/2025/27/nahost…
The article under 10. has just been withdrawn
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