Annalena Baerbock Is Wrong About Israel

On April 2, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Hungary. This European state welcomes him, even though the International Criminal Court, in one of its most shamefully politicized moves in modern history, has issued an arrest warrant against him. And here comes Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister of Germany, who calls this a “bad day for international law.” I say no, Madam Minister! October 7, 2023, was a bad day for humanity. That was a bad day for every law, divine and man-made.

She even said, “In Europe, nobody is above the law.”  To say such a thing, at such a time, requires one of two things: historical amnesia or ideological blindness. Or both.

Let’s talk about the law. Let’s talk about the law of self-defense. Let’s talk about the right of a sovereign nation to survive. Let’s talk about every decent country’s obligation to fight against terror. And while we’re at it, let’s talk about Germany’s historic responsibility. Because when Jews are being hunted, raped, and kidnapped, it is not the time for moral lectures from Berlin.

Germany should bow its head in humility when Jewish lives are under attack.

Every word from her lips is an echo of history’s worst betrayal. And don’t tell me, “This isn’t the same Germany.” Because if it were, Baerbock wouldn’t be wagging her finger at the world’s only Jewish state. She’d say, “Never again means never again, even when it’s politically inconvenient.”

Baerbock represents a brand of progressive Europe that has utterly lost its compass, a Europe that burns with indignation when Israel defends itself.

Jews are not obligated to apologize for defending themselves. Not now. Not ever again.

But I get it; it takes moral courage to stand with people who have been hunted through history, who have nowhere else to go, and who now face an enemy that chants, “We love death the way you love life.” And it takes even more courage to say: The Jews are right to fight.

Here is the truth: if international law has become a tool to criminalize the self-defense of Jews, then international law is broken.

History will remember what you said, Annalena Baerbock. It will remember that while Jews mourned their dead and waited for news of their kidnapped daughters and sons, you judged their defenders.

This is not a courtroom. This is history. And in history, Israel will endure.

Israel will triumph. Israel will live.
Not in fear. Not in apology. Not in silence.
But in strength. In memory. In truth.
Forever.

Am Yisrael Chai.