A courageous declaration signed by 800 officials (1) in the United States, The European Union, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, calls on respective governments to: "hold Israel, like all actors, accountable to international humanitarian and human rights standards applied elsewhere and to forcefully respond to attacks against civilians, as we are doing in our support to the Ukrainian people; this includes demanding immediate and full implementation of the recent order of the International Court of Justice". It should be remembered that this statement follows previous statements and resignations of senior officials in the United States and the UN for similar reasons. It also follows multiple demonstrations of support for the Palestinian people across the world. On the governmental level, it is also worth remembering that Ireland was the first EU member state to call for the creation of a Palestinian stat...