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.

This site is not an impartial news outlet, and does not claim to be one. It is a legal-activism project: I use international law as a tool of pressure, not as an academic exercise. The choice of which facts to tell — and which not to — reflects a deliberate editorial line, oriented toward denouncing violations of international law and human rights.

Where I ask to be judged is on method, not on the absence of a point of view. Every story I publish has to pass the same test, whoever the protagonist is: would the condemnation hold if the identities of the parties were swapped? I don't always start from zero. This site's coverage today is skewed toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a subject that touches me personally, through friendships and a life lived close to those stories, while on many other theatres my starting knowledge was close to none. I write this here because it's true, not because it's resolved: it's also to correct this imbalance that I started using an explicit protocol for choosing what to follow, explained on the Method page.