For decades, (West) Germany has cast its support for Israel as supposed proof of its redemption as a post-genocidal state. It has identified the Israeli state as the stand in for Jewish victims of the Holocaust and turned support for Israel into a symbolic substitute for real denazification. The consequence is deep financial, military, political and ideological backing for occupation, apartheid and now the genocide in Gaza. At the same time, a deliberately vague definition of antisemitism increasingly conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism and weaponises accusations against critics of Israel’s actions. In this landscape, Holocaust remembrance no longer signals a duty to oppose oppression everywhere, and Germany’s celebrated memory culture now serves to police Palestinians, Muslims, and Jews who refuse to accept the roles the state assigns them.