by Abdaljawad Omar | Apr 2, 2026 | Colonialism, Human Rights, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli prisons, Op-Ed, Palestine, Palestinian prisoners
The picture of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir jubilantly trying to open a champagne bottle on the Knesset floor over the passing of a death penalty law for Palestinians will be anchored in history as one of those photographs that needs no caption. It’s the image of a country that has never truly left the colonial moment into which it was born. It didn’t simply inherit…
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by Julia Conley | Mar 31, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Israel, Israeli prisons, News, Palestine, Palestinian prisoners
Leading international human rights groups as well as organizations in Israel swiftly demanded the repeal of a law passed by the Israeli Knesset on Monday that makes death by hanging the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis — a law that one group called “discriminatory by design.” Those were the words of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel…
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