A Piece of Advice - Why the Dutch Government Needs to Respond to Advice Given by the ICJ and AIV

Abstract

In this blog post, we discuss two pieces of advice about the legal and political consequences for the Netherlands arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These are the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion of July 2024 and the Advisory Letter from the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs of October 2024. Both pieces of advice provide concrete recommendations, many of which, in our view, require fundamental changes in the current Dutch policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Dutch Government is constitutionally obliged to provide a meaningful response to both these pieces of advice. So far, however, it has failed to do so.

Keywords

• Advisory Opinion
• ICJ
• International Court of Justice
• Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag
• Israel
• Israel and occupied territory