Israel’s parliament passes death penalty bill targeting Palestinians

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Israel’s parliament passes death penalty bill targeting Palestinians

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has passed a controversial one-sided bill that will instruct military courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of “terror”, but will not impose the same penalty on Jewish Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians.

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Maeve

kbin.earth

Demons

Akasazh

lemmy.world

Apartheid state

supersquirrel

sopuli.xyz

My heart is really heavy right now, this is dark.

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sh.itjust.works

Well I mean, they weren't shy about killing Palestinians before the bill

supersquirrel

sopuli.xyz

Appearing in the Knesset before voting began, Ben-Gvir wore a pin featuring a small metal noose on his lapel. “From today, every terrorist will know, and the whole world will know, that whoever takes a life, the State of Israel will take their life,” he said.

This kind of ideology terrifies me, it cannot stop until it consumes everything.

nearhat

lemmy.zip

This is the white supremacist, European colonialism playbook. The same barbarism happened in Namibia, India, the Congo, and other ‘frontier’ lands.

Israel is an Ashkenazi white supremacist, colonial regime. It needs to be dismantled. Palestinian liberation is the only just outcome.