Dörthe Engelcke

Nov 28, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Dörthe Engelcke

In a recent speech in the Bundestag to mark the anniversary of 7 October 2023, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz denied that the country had decided to stop supplying arms to Israel. The Federal Republic had made such exports and would continue to do so. However, as data published by the German government shows, there was a de facto ban on the export of weapons of war between March and August 2024.

Sep 24, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Dörthe Engelcke

The German parliament is preparing to pass a resolution titled “Never again is now: protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany.”What sounds like a noble goal threatens to erode the democratic fabric of our society, which helps to guarantee the protection of vulnerable individuals in the first place.

Sep 18, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Shaheryar Mirza |Dörthe Engelcke

New licences for the export of "weapons of war" to Israel have been put on hold by Germany pending legal challenges, according to an exclusive report from Reuters. Citing data from Germany's economy ministry and a source close to it, licences for "weapons of war" to Israel amounted to just $36,150 in 2024 and total arms exports dropped to $16.1m. In 2023, arms exports including military equipment and weapons of war totalled $363.5m - which was a 10-fold increase from 2022.

May 25, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Dörthe Engelcke

When German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock presented the guidelines of her feminist foreign policy in March 2023, she proclaimed: “If women are not safe, then no one is safe.”Considering Germany’s extensive support for the Israeli war on Gaza, that sentence now sounds like a farce. Since 7 October, more than 35,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza.