Silence is Complicity

Gemeinsame Erklärung der humanitären Beauftragten der Vereinten Nationen in der Nahostregion

Stand Up, Speak Out, Protect the Humanitarian Space

Joint Statement by UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Syria, Yemen and Lebanon

One year ago, we called on those in power to end attacks against humanitarian workers and aid operations. Release all those arbitrarily detained. Safeguard the humanitarian space in the Middle East. That call remains unanswered.

Across the region, civilians, including humanitarian workers, have already endured an unbearable toll of decades of conflict and protracted crises. They are being killed, injured, and attacked in shocking numbers. Violations of international humanitarian law are at an unprecedented level, and impunity has become the norm.

The world is failing humanitarian workers and the people they serve. Since August 2024, at least 446 aid workers were killed, wounded, kidnapped or detained in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. This brings the total number since August 2023 to at least 841 affected workers, including 584 killed, 215 wounded, 38 detained, and 4 kidnapped.

The assault on humanitarian space now includes moves to dismantle multilateral norms, undermine UN‑mandated bodies, and defund institutions tasked with protection and justice.

Even speaking out has become a liability, risking humanitarian access and triggering political retaliation.

Justice has failed for serious violations, whether committed by the same actors or by others emboldened by their impunity. The climate of permissiveness is politically indefensible and morally intolerable. There can be no exceptions to the rules of war. All parties must comply with international humanitarian law and be held accountable.

When we protect humanitarian workers, we are not only protecting the people they serve in the Middle East. We are protecting civilians everywhere, the international system, and the principles that underpin our collective dignity and humanity.

Humanitarians are not giving up, neither should the world.

This World Humanitarian Day, we renew our call—louder, sharper, uncompromising: Respect international humanitarian and human rights laws. Protect those who protect humanity. End impunity or be complicit. The world is watching. #ActForHumanity. Now.

Signatories

Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and Officer-In-Charge Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process

Mr. Adam Abdelmoula, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria

Mr. Julien Harneis, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen

Mr. Imran Riza, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon

Über die moralischste Armee der Welt

Der Historiker Adam Raz über das „Lexikon der Brutalität“ und wie sich die israelische Mehrheitsgesellschaft nach dem 7. Oktober von Netanjahu vereinnahmen ließ.
Ein Interview von Inge Günther

Die Bibi-Files

Lohnenswert, wenn auch nicht vergnüglich: Dokumentation des NDR in der ARD-Mediathek

On dealing with the past

Der Gewalt nicht das letzte Wort lassen

„Gemeinsam von Auschwitz lernen – Beziehungen konstruktiv gestalten“: Unter diesem Leitwort stand der 16. Europäische Workshop der Maximilian-Kolbe-Stiftung zum Umgang mit der gewaltbelasteten Vergangenheit von Auschwitz. Vom 11. bis 16. August 2025 kamen dafür Menschen aus verschiedenen Teilen Europas sowie aus Namibia in Oświęcim/Auschwitz zusammen, um über Versöhnung und Dialog vor dem Hintergrund der derzeitigen Konflikte in Europa und globaler Instabilität zu diskutieren.

Bericht Radio Vatican | Maximilian Kolbe Stiftung

Berliner Fundstück

Möglich: Ja. Erlaubt: Sachbeschädigung. Geboten: … mhh….

Photo: R.H.

Israels Verantwortung

Warum der Vorwurf der Täter-Opfer-Umkehr im Gazakrieg irreführend ist. 

Peter Lintl in Internationale Politik

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Kalender 2025 – August

Allianz für Frieden im Nahen Osten… – Zwölf Organisationen stellen sich vor
Ein Begleiter durch das Jahr 2025 – Im August ist es die Organisation AJEEC-NISPED … festhalten an einer anderen, gemeinsamen Vision für die Zukunft, an solchen Tagen, wo ein Waffenstillstand, geschweige denn ein Ende des Krieges, noch imm weiter in die Ferne gerückt ist und Menschen weiter hungern und sterben …

israel & palästina – Zeitschrift für Dialog | Ausgabe 4-2024


AJEEC-NISPED, founded in 2000, is an Arab-Jewish organization dedicated to social change and sustainable development in the Negev and across Israel.

Its diverse team works to build a shared society that values cultural identity, equality, and peaceful coexistence. AJEEC operates in three main areas: Youth & Leadership Development, Arab-Jewish Partnership, and Community Resilience. The organization has expanded its reach nationwide and is one of Israel’s largest civil society groups, with 200 staff members and 1,500 volunteers, including 750 gap-year participants.Its youth movement, Shabibat AJEEC, serves over 9,000 members and is recognized by the Ministry of Education, focusing especially on the Bedouin communities of the Negev through community-led solutions. (Donation Link)

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Es war das zehnte Mal, daß im Rahmen von israel & palästina | Zeitschrift für Dialog ein Photobegleiter in Kalenderform für das kommende Jahr erschienen ist:

Allianz für Frieden im Nahen Osten – Ein Begleiter durch das Jahr 2025

Erschienen in Zusammenarbeit mit allmep.org

Kalender 2025


Antisemitismus begegnen: Leitfaden für Schulen

Hilfestellung in vier Sprachen

Open access | 30. Juli 2025

Mit ihrem Leitfaden „Eine sichere Schule für Jüdinnen und Juden“ wollen die Autoren Marc Grimm und Florian Beer Antisemitismus nicht nur theoretisch betrachten, sondern Lehrkräften und anderen Bildungsfachkräften für ihren Berufsalltag etwas Praktisches an die Hand geben: 35 Fragen und ihre Antworten geben Anstoß, darüber zu diskutieren, was in jeder einzelnen Schule gemacht werden kann – um aufzuklären, präventiv vorzusorgen und Themen aufzugreifen, die häufig unausgesprochen bleiben. Neben der überarbeiteten deutschen Fassung steht der Leitfaden nun auch auf Englisch, Spanisch und Arabisch kostenlos zum Download zur Verfügung.

Conversation with activists from Tel Aviv

Join the European Community of Friends of Standing Together for an Online Talk & Solidarity Event with activists from the Tel Aviv University Chapter of Standing Together

📅 Wednesday, 13 August 2025
🕕 6:00 – 7:30 PM (CEST)
👉register to join the zoom

 (Language: English, with automatic subtitles in German & French)

Across Gaza, Israel’s war of annihilation continues to claim thousands of innocent lives, and the hostages remain in captivity. In the midst of this relentless violence and grief, a joint Israeli-Palestinian movement is standing firm, refusing to surrender to despair.

As active supporters from afar – many with deep personal ties to the land and its people – the European Friends of Standing Together wish to honour the movement’s role as the foremost voice confronting a corrupt government determined to drag the country into a pointless and endless war, because seeing them take to the streets gives us hope as well. Together we say: This war must end. There is another way.

On 13 August, the European Friends of Standing Together – from Belgium, Berlin, France, Sweden, and beyond – invite you to an urgent online conversation with activists from the Tel Aviv University Chapter of Standing Together. Register here.

You will hear firsthand:

  • How students are resisting from within Israel
  • Stories of courageous co-resistance to the war of annihilation in Gaza
  • The role of European solidarity in building a future of equality and justice

There will also be space for your questions and reflections.

💜 Your participation matters. This is more than a talk – it is also a chance to act. Every donation to the “Fighting for Life” campaign made before 17 August will be doubled by supporters in Israel-Palestine and abroad. Your contribution will directly strengthen this growing movement.

Donate now – help Standing Together protect lives and build a future beyond war: https://omdi.me/tel-aviv-u-fights

Let’s stand together – across borders – for life, dignity, and justice.

In Solidarity,

European Friends of Standing Together

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