I Will Not Look Away

I Will Not Look Away · 2026

SEE. FEEL. ACT.

The law applies to all, or it applies to none.

Looking away is the most common gesture in the face of injustice. Here, at least, it becomes a conscious choice.

Gaza · Ukraine · Sudan · Venezuela · Flotilla · Taiwan · Lebanon

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Purpose

This platform was born from a simple and uncomfortable conviction: that international law cannot have geopolitical exceptions. That silence, at a certain point, becomes complicity.

I do not represent an organisation. I am not a political movement. I am a citizen who sees, feels, and chooses to act — through the only weapons the law places in the hands of those without power: precise words, documented facts, written norms.

This platform hosts manifestos grounded in international law, news on relevant declarations and events with their legal framing, and petitions open for signature by anyone who shares the principle that no State stands above the law.

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I Will Not Look Away · 2026

About

One person alone. No organisation, no movement — a citizen who chose not to stay silent.

This manifesto is written by one person alone.

I do not represent an organisation, a party, a movement. I am a European citizen who has travelled extensively for work and met people of every background — social, religious, political, geographical. I have Jewish friends, Muslim friends, Catholic friends, atheists. This diversity is not decorative backdrop to my life: it is how I learned to think.

On this conflict I have listened to everyone, starting with those closest to me. My Jewish friends put me to a hard test. I sought to understand their point of view, pursued it seriously, considered it. But in the end I found myself facing something I cannot call an argument: only justifications for acts that international law defines as unlawful. And I understood that continuing to stay silent — so as not to hurt a friendship, or not to appear what I am not — would have been dishonest. Towards them, before anyone else.

I believe in the norms of international law not as rhetorical convenience, but as the real foundation of civilised coexistence. I believe in Western morality in its oldest and most uncomfortable sense: the morality of people, not of politics and economics. On this issue, the moral bottom has been reached. The point at which silence ceases to be prudence and becomes complicity.

If you share this conviction, this manifesto is yours too.

I Will Not Look Away · 2026

Manifestos

Documents grounded in international law: documented facts, violated norms, concrete measures.

For the Non-Recognition of the State of Israel
Legal, ethical and political grounds for a necessary rupture · 2026
For the Non-Recognition of the Conduct of the Russian Federation
Legal, ethical and political grounds for a necessary consistency · 2026
For Sudan — The Genocide the World Looks Away From
Legal, ethical and political grounds for an attention that is owed · 2026
For the Non-Recognition of the Conduct of the United States of America
Legal, ethical and political grounds for a principle that admits no exceptions · 2026
For the Freedom of the Seas — The Seizure of the Flotilla
Legal, ethical and political grounds for the right not to look away · 2026
For the Right to Asylum — Against the Externalisation of the European Border
Legal, ethical and political foundation of a coherence Europe owes itself · 2026
Hunger Is a Political Choice
266 million people do not have enough food. The world knows. The world stays silent. · 2026

I Will Not Look Away · 2026

News

The facts that struck me and that I could not ignore. Every item is verified and accompanied by a legal analysis before publication.

18 June 2026 — United States · Iran · UN

A deal born fragile: the US-Iran peace between coercion and non-bound third parties

«If anybody gets near the uranium, we'll blow them up.» — Donald Trump
Read the analysis

15 June 2026 — EU Foreign Affairs Council · Brussels

Sanctions on Ben Gvir: the EU blocked by unanimity, while individual states act

«We don't have the necessary unanimity that we need for this decision.» — Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative
Read the analysis

13 June 2026 — Middle East · UN

Iran: the 2026 war nears its end, and the unresolved question of the use of force

The UN Secretary-General stated the US-Israeli strikes violated the UN Charter, and condemned Iran's retaliation against Gulf states as unlawful too.
Read the analysis

12 June 2026 — European Union

The new EU Asylum Pact enters into force

"Labelling a country 'safe' does not make it safe." — Amnesty International
Read the analysis

11 June 2026 — Luxembourg

Albania: the CJEU opinion — "legitimate, but rights must be guaranteed"

"States remain free to locate the centres in Albania" — yet compliance with minimum standards of treatment remains unproven. (AG Laila Medina's opinion)
Read the analysis

June 2026 — Omer Bartov, «Israel: What Went Wrong?»

Gaza and the word "genocide": what third-party bodies have actually determined, and why a genocide scholar's voice carries weight

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." — Omer Bartov, Holocaust and genocide scholar (Brown University), New York Times, 15 July 2025
Read the analysis

May–June 2026 — Taipei · Washington · Beijing

Taiwan, the next test: deterrence wavers and the precedent emboldens Beijing

"The last thing we need right now is a war that's 9,500 miles away." — Donald Trump, returning from the summit with Xi Jinping, May 2026
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6 June 2026 — Tribeca Film Festival, New York

"I thought they only raped Palestinians" — rape jokes on the Tribeca red carpet

"I was only raped by two Israeli dogs" — Elon Gold, actor. "I thought they only raped Palestinians" — Lizzy Savetsky, influencer. On the red carpet of the Tribeca Film Festival, 6 June 2026.
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Academic research

The Israeli school system: a factory of the enemy

"You taught us they are a problem to be solved. So we are solving it." — Israeli student to Nurit Peled-Elhanan
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June 2026

Ben Gvir proposes kidnapping Lebanese women and children

"Kidnap women and children and bring them to the terrorists' prisons" — Itamar Ben Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security
Read the analysis

June 2026

Ben Gvir investigated by Rome prosecutors — Flotilla

The Rome Prosecutor's Office registered Ben Gvir as a suspect in the Global Sumud Flotilla case. Ben Gvir responded by attacking Italy: "The country of flip-flops."
Read the analysis

June 2026

Italy requests EU sanctions against Ben Gvir

"I asked High Representative Kallas to bring a sanctions proposal against Minister Ben Gvir to the Foreign Affairs Council" — Antonio Tajani, Italian Foreign Minister
Read the analysis

3 January 2026 — Caracas

The United States militarily captures President Nicolás Maduro and announces it will "run" Venezuela. The capture of a sitting head of state, without Security Council authorisation or self-defence, violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and head-of-state immunity. It is the purest test of this platform's principle: the law applies to all or to none.

Read the full manifesto on the United States →

I Will Not Look Away · 2026

Petitions

Every manifesto has its own dedicated petition. Signing means giving collective weight to a principle.

For the Non-Recognition of the State of Israel
Active petition on Change.org · in Italian and English