Bislang ist wenig darüber bekannt, wie die Bevölkerung in Deutschland den Krieg wahrnimmt, den die USA und Israel am 28. Februar 2026 gegen den Iran begonnen haben. Eine Online-Befragung unter 2.492 Personen von Ende März liefert hierzu erste Einblicke. Die Ergebnisse helfen dabei, aktuelle öffentliche und politische Debatten besser zu kontextualisieren.
Hussein el Mouallem, Programmleiter im Libanon-Büro der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, blickt aus der Sicht seines Landes auf die Verhandlungen Israel-Libanon.
Hier ein Zitat aus der aktuellen Ausgabe der London Review of Books / April 2026
„Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide. He knew that the way a people organises its space is a manifestation of its history and social structure. ‘Genocide has two phases,’ Lemkin wrote in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. The first involves the ‘destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group’ – this was achieved in Gaza by Israel’s devastating bombing. The second involves the imposition of a design by the oppressor, like these reconstruction plans for Gaza. ‘This imposition, in turn,’ he wrote, ‘may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain, or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonisation of the area by the oppressor’s own nationals.’“
„This magazine brings us back to where we first met: documenting home demolitions in the Jordan Valley and the West Bank. That project was a collaboration between Rabbis for Human Rights, where Mati was active, and Dharma Activism, where Yossi volunteered. Since then, we’ve both left Israel and moved to Berlin. Today, though far from the occupation in the West Bank and the horror unfolding in Gaza, we’ve created a unique international and multilingual cultural project that combines both activism and art …“
INTRO | Thaer Ayoub, Yosi Lampel und Mati Shemoelof
Over 350 former European Ministers, Ambassadors and Senior Officials call for suspension of the EU – Israel Association Agreement amid Israel’s systematic violations of Palestinians’ human rights