Israel’s Chilling New Death Penalty Law Is as Racist as It Is Abhorrent

Israel and the Death Penalty – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Israel has finally, at long last, instituted the death penalty for terrorists. The pertinent part of the law reads as follows: “Whoever intentionally causes the death of a person with the intention of harming a citizen or resident of Israel, with the aim of denying the existence of the State of Israel, shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, and one of these punishments only.” The exact wording of the law from Perplexity: Whoever inten…

Israel, Apartheid and the Death Penalty, Codifying War on Palestinian Life - New Politics

The Israeli death penalty law issued on March 30, 2026 is a brutal and racist law, a codified tool of ethnic cleansing, a war crime, and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. The post Israel, Apartheid and the Death Penalty, Codifying War on Palestinian Life appeared first on New Politics.

Israel’s chilling new death penalty law is as racist as it is abhorrent

Israel’s new 90-day capital sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorism is the kind of targeted execution we in the Jewish community have seen before, says Eric Lewis

Israel, Apartheid, and the Death Penalty: A War on the Palestinian Right to Life

On March 30, 2026, the Israeli Knesset passed a law imposing the death penalty by hanging on Palestinian prisoners and detainees convicted by military courts, to be carried out within ninety days of sentencing. This is not merely a legal amendment. It is a qualitative shift in the nature of violence, to a  codified and openly declared violence.  The law does not regulate justice, it redefines it to  serve a repugnant structure of national oppres…