It failed miserably, the politics of rallying againt the far-right at home, while full supporting the most far right Government in Israeli history didn’t deterred the far-right party in germany from gaining. To the contrary it showed how unsubstantial and weak german “values” are, in applying Universality of human rights and their foreign policies, selective in condemning grave violations of human rights and humanitarian laws. By applying such fundamental rights granted by it’s design of a democracy, selectively in engaging with other countries, in other words by ignoring grave violations deliberately and selective, it made the far right and their rhetoric much stronger and to some extend normalised those whose ideology is: Not every human being is equal.
It applied this selective approach on a broad front.
Academic freedom, free speech, freedom if assembly, news coverage in the Mainstream Media, casualties often didn’t even got mentioned. Every critical UN-report of grave violations by Israeli forces is discredited. It lost every sense of a value based sense of humanity.
It is one fact, to recognise the historic guilt of germany and to protect Jewish people in Germany and Israel as a country. To label palestinians who suffer in the westbank by daily raids, mass imprisonment and excessive force of torture and to label their fight against dehumanising violence and discrimination by the occupation as “unjustified and (main) threads to the peace process” it let the violence and discrimination escalate further and further to the levels of todays dehumanising outraging behavior.
There is no real existential thread for Israel but for the Palestinians living in occupied territories where Israel exercises it’s sovereignty by occupation.
To ignore the severity of this situation made the situation of today possible and to some extend normalised it by ignorance.
So the question i must think of, when there is a question of the right for Israel to exist, in Germany there is no Palestine in School books, no recognising of any border or occupied territories but Israel like the “Greater Israel Map”, which right to exist as a state did germans need to accept and recognise? An ethnic clean greater Israel State or of a possible 2 State solution existence with Palestinians still have a right to live on part of their lands, in UN and many international countries recognised state in the borders of 1967?
For far-right supporters they feel entitled to come forward and get stronger, that is simply a matter of fact and a consequence of normalising politics of applying human rights selectively.