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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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The principle of human dignity must apply to all people

A collapsed building following an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the al-Haj family at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on 21 November 2023.
A collapsed building following an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the al-Haj family at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on 21 November 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images

We the undersigned are deeply concerned by the statement “Principles of solidarity” published on the website of the Normative Orders research centre at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt on 13 November 2023, signed by Nicole Deitelhoff, Rainer Forst, Klaus Günther and Jürgen Habermas.

We join the authors in condemning the killing and taking hostage of Israeli civilians by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and we fully agree with the vital need to protect Jewish life in Germany in the face of rising antisemitism. We also agree with the statement’s grounding of these positions in the respect for human dignity for all people as a central part of the “democratic ethos of the Federal Republic of Germany”.

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