Claudia Roth at Tilo Jung: How good that there are “foreign friends”.

What would we be without our “foreign friends”? After all, they help us out of trouble. Somehow we have learned that we have to take responsibility for the crimes that Germany has committed, keyword “final solution”. Somehow we also feel responsible for the fate of the Palestinians. Because it seems to us that the Palestinians are – “in the end”, as we like to say – the victims of our victims, which is why we have to behave in some way.

Tilo Jung knows that a genocide is taking place in Gaza, among other things because “the majority of genocide researchers” and a UN commission have determined this. Jung does not say that the “majority of genocide researchers” refers to the vote of an association in which anyone can become a member, that only 28 percent of the approximately 500 members took part and that the member list contained the fake profile of a person named Adolf Hitler. Nor does he point out that UN commissions and UN special rapporteurs have developed a bad reputation on the issue of Israel because the methodology of their reports regularly attracts strong criticism. We are in Germany and an unresolved ethical-political question fills us with terror.

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This horror is written all over Claudia Roth's face when she sits opposite Jung on his podcast and he speaks sternly to her. "Some good friends of mine, foreign friends, say, when will you finally free yourself from this guilt of history? Or when will you deal with it differently?" reports Roth. It is not known that she told her “foreign friends” to just leave this right-wing extremist guilt cult nonsense behind.

The culinary psychology thesis of “foreign friends,” which is always used when it comes to explaining that solidarity with the Jewish state must come to an end, goes like this: The Germans feel guilty because of the Jews. That is why they cannot recognize the fundamentally criminal character of Zionism. So you have to help them free themselves from guilt so that they can become normal subjects. We don't know whether Claudia Roth wants that. But we learned that the powerful were powerless. The “incredible pressure” from the Central Council of Jews in Germany was too strong.