Overview
- A co‑pilot allegedly attacked the captain with an axe on a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv but the captain and passengers subdued the attacker and many lives were saved.
- Family Minister Karin Prien posted on X that the muted global reaction to the foiled attack was striking and asked why the incident had not drawn wider outrage.
- Federal Human Rights Commissioner Lars Castellucci replied on X that Israel was "losing its last friends" because of its "far‑right government" and later expanded his posts to press Israel to respect international law and curb settler violence.
- Prien and other critics condemned Castellucci’s wording as cold and potentially antisemitic, while some SPD colleagues defended or amplified him and senior ministers publicly criticized the remark.
- The row, amplified on social media, lays bare how Germany’s Holocaust memory and politics of antisemitism shape debate over Israel and could increase pressure on the government for public clarification or internal discipline.