Yes, being an immigrant in this country and witnessing up close the overtly xenophobic sentiment grow hand-in-hand with actual literal Hitlerist Nazism, I no longer believe the Israel apologia was ever primarily motivated by the Holocaust or genocide guilt, like at all.

Germans support Israel because they are in favour of the ethnic cleansing. Unambiguously. They talk of Palestinians the same way colonizers have always excused genocide: Their culture is barbaric, they're violent, a danger to women and children, the land grab is legitimate because of this or that treatise, "right of return" is lazy people who want an easy life and aren't even real Palestinians etc. It's the exact same pretexts of the past 500 years. Israel is an European colonization project and Germans *endorse* that. They think cleansing the land of Arabs and replacing them with civilized people like us is inherently a good thing.

The Israeli narrative is beloved in Germany because it gives them a justification to finally come out about how they have always felt about immigrants. Remembrance culture was only ever a way to pretend Nazism isn't an ongoing movement, and the memory of the Holocaust was only ever a discursive tactic to centre themselves. Germans don't care about Jewish lives at all, or 1 in 4 wouldn't be pro-Nazi as of current polls; any Jewish individual who dares to defy Israel (and, consequently, defy the Germans) is quickly thrown to the wolves.