Israel votes for death penalty for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks

The proposed law still has to be ratified by Israel's Supreme Court.

The people who decided to do that are evil.

If you are a true supporter of Israel then you should be up in arms about it.

Do these countries all have it written in law that it only applies to one ethnicity? Jewish Israeli terrorists who carry out the same crimes will not recieve the same penalty.

Plenty are outraged over SA killings inc posters on here but isn't Israel supposed to be a democracy? with higher values.

This is also a thread about a new potential death penalty law, not one about Saudi and its practices.

I’ve yet to see any evidence of a genocide.
Just saying the word, doesn’t make it true.

This. Many if not all countries in the ME have the death penalty.

As always it's only when Israel do something that folk are up in arms. I wonder why.

Faux outrage? That's an extremely offensive thing to say. I haven't seen any faux outrage. Only very sincere upset and righteous anger about this disgusting and evil bill from Israel's far right.

By the way, it takes very little for Palestinians to be accused of terrorism.
Also, do you not have a problem with how racist this is? Jewish terrorists won't be at risk from it. It's pure apartheid in full show.

You're extremely naive and ignorant on the matter.
Israeli prisons are full of innocent people.
There was a case highlighted on the news about a young man involved in a car accident/collision with a settler on the West Bank. The poor Palestinian man has been accused of deliberately crashing into the settler. He's protested his innocence, and I'm sure he is. He's at serious risk from this new law. There are 1000s of similar cases. To be clear - this obscene new law is part of a far right plan to eliminate Palestinians. It's plain as day.

Somewhat understandable? That sounds like sitting on the fence.

Even if were understandable - it can never be used to condone a killing/ execution, which you agree- and to this end- I am not sure why you are posting about the context of this law. We all know each side’s grievances and horrors suffered.

I hope the Israeli Supreme Court strike out this law due to concerns about due legal processes. I would 100% have concerns about Hamas following a legally legitimate process to kill. The West Bank Palestinian civilians appear to have no functioning representation and are at the whim of Israel. It looks from the outside as completely one sided with no protection for Palestinians there.

« Israeli rights group B'Tselem says military courts in the West Bank, where only cases involving Palestinians are heard, have a 96% conviction rate and a history of extracting confessions under duress or even through torture. Israel denies this. »

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jailed-palestinians-fear-death-by-hanging-without-due-process-under-new-israeli-2026-03-31/

The hang man’s noose broaches are a sick touch.

Oh the genocide wasn’t enough punishment? Perhaps Israel won’t be happy until every single Palestinian is dead.

How does October 7th justify settlers killing Palestinians in the West Bank? Two wrongs do not make a right. Both things can be (and are) abhorrent.

If we had PR, you would see the emergence of a great many new parties across the political spectrum. I'm from the Netherlands, which has PR - and it's astonishing how quickly the party landscape moves, with new parties emerging between elections and becoming part of a coalition first or second time out.

The extremist government Israel has is entirely down to the people who voted it in.

Have you forgotten about October 7th?

That's my point fptp doesn't sustain smaller parties, with a pr system you'd likely have more which would be more representative of the entire electorate.
Anyway we're derailing so I'll leave it there.

I agree the parties on offer are all unappealing but realistically, these are the 4 main parties in the UK.

I think your example of the parties on offer demonstrates how inadequate the fptp system is.
My opinion is based on being a voter who has experienced both systems

You're entitled to your opinion but so am I and I think it would.

I think the Conservatives could join with Reform for example to form a coalition party.

Or Labour could join with the Green Party.

The way things work in our current system we always seem to get the Conservatives or Labour and either would be more moderate on their own than with the coalition partners they would gravitate to in order to win an election.

PR would make it more likely we would get extremists in charge

No it wouldn't, it would be less likely because they are unlikely to find a party to go into government with to make up a majority, if they do well that's an issue with the party that goes into coalition with them not the system. Edited to add there are different types of PR systems they don't all operate the same way

Proportional representation is not the problem. I vote in a proportional representative system and as a voter you are fully aware who the parties/ candidates are likely to go into a coalition with if they need the numbers, I doubt it was a surprise to anyone who the Likud party would go into coalition with to get a majority, yet people still voted for them and people voted to get gvir and his ilk into parliament. It's a cop out blaming the voting system imo.

I always used to think proportional representation was a good thing and it was a shame we didn't have it in the UK.

The current coalition in Israel definitely shows the dangers though. Maybe the system here isn't so bad after all! PR would make it more likely we would get extremists in charge too like Reform or - unfortunately, these days - the Green party.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on here.

The law passed in the Knesset (parliament) not as a referendum or something. It doesn’t matter who thinks what among the population, the only thing that matters here is the consequences of proportional representation and the disgusting current coalition which gave way too much power to the minority far right to pursue their racist agenda because without their support Bibi wouldn’t have a government.

Yep. Same for them. No apartheid laws based on ethnicity. Israel is making itself a pariah state.

I feel sorry for the Israelis who didn't vote for this shitshow.