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German chancellor’s rebuke of Israel marks a shift in state policy that has long put such criticism out of bounds

By Elisabeth Weber, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Friedrich Merz did something unprecedented for a German chancellor in late May 2025: publicly criticize Israel in unvarnished, unequivocal terms.

“What the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip, I no longer understand the goal,” he said in a televised interview.…

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