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.