UK imports of Israeli arms and military equipment increased by 10,589% between 2023 and 2025, according to UN trade data, prompting renewed scrutiny of Britain’s defence ties with Israel and the growing international market for technologies critics say have been developed and tested in the context of the occupation of Palestinian territories.

When a nation professes to champion human rights and international law, most people would think its actions should match its words. Not so Germany. Deutschland has, it seems, gotten itself caught up in that old and familiar trap of moral aspiration running up against claimed strategic necessity. So, on one hand, Berlin has publicly expressed […]