Extremist Israeli minister demands apology from German chancellor over ‘no West Bank annexation’

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has demanded an apology from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for saying that “there must be no de facto annexation of the West Bank,” Anadolu reports. “On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the German Chancellor should bow his head and apologize a thousand times on behalf of Germany, rather than daring to preach morality to us on how to conduct ourselves against the Nazis of our generation,” Smotrich said on the US social media platform X late Monday. Israel will “not accept instructions from hypocritical leaders in Europe, a continent that is once again losing its conscience and its ability to distinguish between good and evil,” he claimed. “The days when Germans dictated to Jews” […]