🧵In this edition of *Staatsräson Monitor* we describe how Germany boosts defense cooperation and lifts export limits while Gaza floods, settler violence rises, and rights vanish from the agenda.

1/3 In the past 24 hours, Israel killed over 100 Palestinians in Gaza, including over 40 children. Such a massacre would have shaken global opinion to the core just a few years ago, but after 2 years of genocide, it now seems commonplace, and the world has become anesthetized>

Every month, I come across a story I wish I had included in the latest SRM edition. This month’s missed one: Germany continues to procure arms and defense systems from Israel — this time IAI’s ZD (Zibar) vehicles for its Special Forces.

Zeigen sie mir eine seriöse Studie die Ihre Behauptung belegt das Universitäten in Deutschland “Hochburgen des Antisemitismus” sind Herr Roth.

🚨 SRM Exclusive: In just 8 days, Israeli-aligned group NAFFO pushed 3 policy papers to German MPs—all shaping Germany’s stance on Palestine, Iran, and Gaza. SRM breaks down the claims and offers its own analysis.

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SRM #5 is live! 🧵Here are some of the major stories, many of them exclusives:

How do wars end? (spoiler: not like this) My comment on Trumps "plan" for ipg-journal @fesonline.bsky.social www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

Bnei Horin, an Israeli initiative is demanding pardon from israeli president Herzog for Jewish terrorists if Palestinian political prisoners are released in a deal

Both the Blair Plan and the Trump Plan lack legitimacy. Blair’s plan: tainted by his Middle East record—think Iraq war and a failed 8 yrs as Quartet head. Trump’s plan: on a whole other level—entirely U.S.-led, with only token participation, and backed by brute power rather than consent.

Staatsräson Monitor just passed 400 subscribers 🎉 And it’s not just about numbers — over 40% of our readers are policy-relevant: Bundestag members & staff, Auswärtiges Amt officials, think tankers, academics, and top journalists.

🚨 Microsoft has cut off Unit 8200’s access to Azure cloud & AI services after revelations it enabled mass surveillance of Palestinians — “a million calls an hour.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Spain cancelled a contract with Israeli arms company Rafael for its Litening-5 targeting pods for Eurofighter jets — the same system that Germany recently approved for its own fleet. www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

This is SRM’s first exclusive deep-dive for paid subscribers. Our focus: UN-Watch, one of the most visible Israel-aligned advocacy organizations active in the German context. staatsraesonmonitor.substack.com/p/un-watch-d...

Der neue Substack von @alonsahar.bsky.social ist da. Geht um eine anstehende ELNET-Delegation für Bundestagsabgeordnete, die jüngste UNRWA-Delegitimierungskampagne durch NAFFO – plus ein Shoutout zu meinem Text über genozidale Rhetorik auf Channel 14 staatsraesonmonitor.substack.com/p/staatsraso...

On Oct 16, Bundestag members will celebrate with ELNET 5 years of the #AbrahamAccords in Berlin. But what looks like “peace” is really normalization without legitimacy—bypassing Palestinians while entrenching conflict. My new op-ed argues why Germany must choose a European alternative.

In early August, Germany announced a freeze on weapons exports to Israel that could be used in the campaign in Gaza. But in the weeks since, hundreds of shipments bound to the Israeli F-35 fighter jet airbase have been shipped through Cologne: thediasporist.de/the-bomb-on-...

Merz wanted to take the lead in the EU, but Germany keeps blocking progress, thus preventing a qualified majority. That’s not leadership, that’s spoiling. Merz must change course at the next College of Commissioners meeting

🧵 According to Israeli Settler Channel 7, A delegation of 250 U.S. state legislators from all 50 states – Republicans and Democrats – visited the West Bank settlement of Peduel today as part of a Foreign Ministry tour with FM Gideon Sa'ar

A new report by the Israeli anti-militarist movement New Profile, titled “Academia by Command: Militarism in Israeli Academia”, offers a rare and systematic mapping of the deep entanglement between Israeli universities and the military-industrial complex. api.rosalux.org.il/uploads/_a6b...

🧵UN Watch, a Geneva-based group, has been described by The Economist as a “pro-Israel monitoring group” and by AFP as “a lobby group with strong ties to Israel.” They just released this new report (cover in the photo).

This morning, NAFFO hosted a Bundestag briefing with UN-Watch. Around 25 people attended, including MPs and staffers, as I reported yesterday in SRM #4 from the leaked invitation

🗞️SRM #4 is Out Here's a 🧵 with some teaser questions on what's inside? staatsraesonmonitor.substack.com/p/staatsraso...

A year ago, Alma Itzhaky and I wrote about the right’s post-October-7 vision for Israel - a Jewish Sparta. Today Bibi used the reference of Sparta to describe his vision of dealing with international isolation.

Netanyahu: "We will increasingly have to look at an economy with autarkic characteristics [...] We will have to develop weapons industries here. We will have to be Athens and Super Sparta." www.calcalist.co.il/local_news/a...

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Dieser Text war lang in Arbeit. Jetzt online @freitag.de: Wie Israels Channel 14 zum Genozid in Gaza anstachelt – und wie Axel Springer bis April über eine Tochterfirma Anzeigen dort schaltete. Inkl. Interviews mit Abir Kopty, Michael Sfard und @alonsahar.bsky.social. www.freitag.de/autoren/hann...

New piece by @hahauenstein.bsky.social @freitag.de on how Israel’s Channel 14 has become a platform for openly genocidal rhetoric. I spoke to Hanno about why this matters beyond Israel: when global companies like Axel Speinger bankroll hate media, they are complicit in normalizing incitement

Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, will receive the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor from Isaac Herzog. Is it for the fake news he distributed via BILD?

Wie einseitig ist die deutsche Nahost-Berichterstattung? Um das herauszufinden habe ich für @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social fast 5.000 Nachrichten deutscher Leitmedien ausgewertet. Das Ergebnis: noch schlimmer als befürchtet. jacobin.de/artikel/isra...

Merz recognised the need to limit arms exports to Israel. Less attention is given to arms imports—just as important in policy & legal terms. 🇩🇪 should review and cease illegal arms purchases from a government engaging in genocide. New w/ @alonsahar.bsky.social verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time. But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany? ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel. verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

🧵 Israelis für Frieden's quote on Israel Hayom's report on the Jewish umbrella org's reactions to our demand of KVS's dismissal: www.israelhayom.co.il/news/world-n...

@hahauenstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

@yoavshemerkunz.bsky.social wrote a piece for @euobserver.com on our letter, of 29 jewish and israeli orgs demanding KVS would be relieved of her duties immediately euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

#Palästinensisches Leben soll hier unmöglich gemacht, die Zukunft der Menschen ausgelöscht werden. Man muss kein Jurist sein, um zu begreifen, was in #Gaza geschieht: das Prinzip von Menschlichkeit wird zerstört, dass Menschen ein Recht auf Leben & Schutz haben. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/isra...

🧵 The new edition of *Staatsräson Monitor* is now live on substack. Highlishts include: - A special cooperation on German arms imports from Israel with legal expert @itamann.bsky.social staatsraesonmonitor.substack.com/p/staatsraso...

Wie kann ein Verein, der noch vor Kurzem von humanistischen Überlebenden wie Kurt Goldstein geführt wurde, nun antipalästinensische Propaganda verbreiten und Friedrich Merz von rechts kritisieren?

🧵 Pressemitteilung: Israelis für Frieden reagiert auf den Stopp der Waffenlieferungen Die Einstellung der Waffenlieferungen an Israel ist zwar längst überfällig, dennoch handelt es sich dabei um einen entscheidenden Schritt und ist die richtige Entscheidung von Merz.

Former Israeli ambassador to France, Professor Elie Barnavi, and historian @vincentlemaire.bsky.social write in Le Monde, following Macron's recognition of a Palestinian state. "Mr President, if immediate sanctions are not imposed on Israel, you will end up recognising a cemetery."

Die Washington Post veröffentlichte eine Liste mit den Namen von 18.500 palästinensischen Kindern, die in den letzten 22 Monaten in Gaza getötet wurden. Diese Liste ist nicht vollständig und wird zudem jeden Tag länger. Wie gedenken deutsche Medien der Opfer dieses Genozids?

In unserem heutigen Gastbeitrag in der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social schreiben @janwilkens.bsky.social und ich warum die Luftbrücke ein Ablenkungsmanöver ist und warum Merz & Wadephul die Forderungen aus der @spdfraktion.de umsetzten sollten. #ceasefirenow #stoparmingisrael

🧵 Israel Hayom, a right-wing daily in Israel, published a poll of the Israeli public to mark 20 years since the disengagement from Gaza, which shows 52% support for resettlement in Gaza, and strong resistance to removal of West Bank settlements. I am doubtful about this poll. >>

Over 20 Jewish and Israeli Organizations Across Europe Demand Dismissal of EU Antisemitism Coordinator for Breach of Mandate

Netanyahu considers annexing the Gaza strip @haaretzcom.bsky.social

Photo 1: A Knesset meeting organized by the “Gaza Riviera” advocacy group, promoting the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. Photo 2: A settler-led invitation to a “March of Return” to Gaza, calling for the revival of Israeli presence in the territory.

#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @unibe.ch regarding the cancellation of a public event organised by @amnesty.org. This decision raises serious concerns about the University’s record in defending and upholding academic freedom. (1/3) 👇 bit.ly/4m8GwH6

My take for the @euobserver.com