Last month, a group of German lawyers filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and other senior parliamentarians for aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This was followed by Nicaragua’s submission of an emergency case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) this month, in which it accused Germany of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention with its unequivocal financial and political support for Israel’s bombardment in Gaza and its defunding of UNRWA, the humanitarian body that provides aid to over 5.5 million Palestinians refu…