Israel votes for death penalty for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

Israel’s focus is on obliterating Palestine and the Palestinians. That is the sole point of the bill

The ‘double standards’ lie within the wording which effects practices amounting to apartheid.

Amnesty International says that the system routinely relies on evidence extracted through torture and abuse. The death sentence will be imposed even if prosecutors do not seek it. Convictions need no longer be unanimous. There is no possibility of pardon. Executions must take place within 90 days.

Within Israeli civilian courts, the new law imposes the death penalty for deliberately killing a person with the intention of “negating the existence of the State of Israel”. Life imprisonment can only substitute in unspecified “special” circumstances.

Images and footage of Israeli ministers gleefully jigging about sporting their noose badges toasting this obscene law with champagne speak for themselves.

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Well obviously not many Jews will want to destroy the state of Israel, but you'd be surprised at what some people will do:

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Presumably this guy Raz Cohen, if he committed the same crime after this bill had passed, would be eligible for the death penalty?

Well yes. There aren’t many Israeli Jews who will seek to try and obliterate Israel and the Jews.

Could have fooled me.

So all those other countries are "apartheid" too are they?
If so, then fine, no double standard.

But how is it racist if Jews who commited the same crime (namely against the state of Israel) would also be eligible for the death penalty?

This is a genuine question, and one I've not seen anyone answer.

First off, I don't support the law, but using the Times of Israel is a classic "appeal to authority" fallacy: that quote doesn't actually answer my question. If a Jew is found guilty of a crime deemed to be attacking the state of Israel, would he be exempt from the death penalty because he was Jewish?

If not (and I think not) then Israel is being attacked for doing what many other states in that part of the world have been doing for years, namely having a death penalty for the crime of attacking their country, but not for someone attacking a neighbouring country from within their borders.

One can think the death penalty for such a crime is wrong, and still point out the double standard there.

The 'other countries do it' whataboutery is so strange.

@FloralDeerPattern but we are not supporting the proposal. Just querying the double standards and the motivation for holding Israel to special scrutiny.

Not supporting racist laws is 'Islamist propaganda' now? Australia, Germany, France, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom all parroting 'Islamist propaganda'? They all acknowledge 'the de facto discriminatory character of the bill.' I wonder why you can't?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-israels-death-penalty-bill-29-march-2026

This.

I don't agree with it either as against the death penalty but it's no worse than what a lot of other countries do.

In at least 10 countries around the world ‘apostasy’, which is the act of leaving religion, is punishable by death. These countries are: Afghanistan, Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Some of the countries criticising Israel should get their own house in order re the death penalty before criticising Israel for introducing it for convicted terrorists.

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I think it is worded to specificaly exclude Jewish terrorists and I am not the only one.

The central problem with the law is that it is intentionally racist — carefully designed to apply solely to Palestinian terrorists, not Jewish ones.

Accordingly, it does not settle for the standard definition of murder, nor even murder “under exceptionally grave circumstances,” as Israeli law stipulates regarding the release of prisoners in diplomatic deals — a clause written as a direct reaction to historical prisoner exchanges, most notably the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal.

Instead, the new legislation specifically defines the crime as “intentionally causing the death of a person with the aim of denying the existence of the State of Israel.”

The objective is to distinguish between Palestinian terrorists — who, according to the law’s drafters, carry out terror attacks to deny the state’s existence — and Jewish terrorists. It is highly unlikely that a court would determine that murders committed by the latter, even if classified as terror attacks, were carried out for the purpose of denying the existence of the state.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/the-death-penalty-law-for-palestinians-convicted-of-deadly-acts-of-terror-is-unconstitutional/amp/

So do you think that a Jew who commits a terror attack against Israel will be exempted from this capital punishment law because he's Jewish? Or is it a law to protect Israel, just like, say, Saudi Arabia executes people for treason against the Saudi state but not against their neighbours?

I also don’t see why this proposal from Israel has got so many people raging when the Islamist countries can and do far worse. All the time.
I don’t agree with it. Luckily Israelis will be able to debate it and vote. Unlike the beleaguered citizens of many other countries in the region.
I’m not religious and despair at the destruction caused by all these medieval minded and hate filled people on both sides but I am always struck by the double standards and hypocrisy of the Islamists.

What do you mean 'we don't see Israeli suicide bombers and terrorists'? You might not see Israeli terrorists but Palestinians certainly do. Jewish terrorism is a massive issue right now so much so that a former pm of Israel has asked the ICC to take action against them to save the Palestinians and Israel from Israeli terrorists. If you think that the actions of these Israeli terrorists committing pogroms and attempting to ethnically cleanse the West Bank aren't harming the state of Israel then you are in dreamland.

The law is there is there nonetheless so it isn't 'just for palestinians'.

We should be outraged at the death penalty worldwide. Why are you only bothered when it's israel? Do you know Saudi Arabia do it all the time.

Revenge for October 7th isn't military retaliation at all.

Israel now doing similar in Lebanon, ethnic cleansing, mass killings of civilians, inc targeting journalists and medical staff, IDF now openly say what they are doing.
"Blew up a car carrying 3 people because 1 of the 3 may have been involved (in a journalistic capacity) with Hezbollah" IDF spokesman said.

Blew up a family of 4 girls and their mother because the son of a former Hezbollah employee was also in the house.
Mother and 8yo killed, the remaining 3 sisters suffering life changing injuries, inc loss of sight, burns and amputation, the boy escaped serious injury but doubtless IDF will blow up the hospital he is in....

If only we had words for people who do things like this.

What atrocities, or do you mean the military retaliation for the actual atrocities committed on Oct 7th?