With Gaza bombarded, with thousands dead and its infrastructure largely in ruins, is it ever acceptable for a German to criticise Israel? Almost the entire German political establishment and most of those in public life apparently think not. Since 7 October, the day Hamas fighters inflicted carnage on a music festival and on kibbutzim inside Israel, all the main parties – the three making up the government, plus the Conservative CDU opposition and even the far-right AfD – have spoken with one voice, in solidarity with Israel. It is not lost on Germans that more Jews were killed on that...