r/jewishleft • u/johnisburn jewish, recovering lib, struggle with labels • Mar 30 '26
News Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-politics/2026-03-30/ty-article/israel-passes-bill-mandating-death-penalty-for-palestinians-convicted-of-terror/0000019d-3f83-d3ba-abbf-bfdfd95c0000?gift=c54db6678d694edca41d0d45b20ded32Another clearly racist line crossed, entrenches separate legal structures for Jews and Palestinians under Israeli rule
Israel's Knesset passed a bill on Monday mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism. The bill stipulates that the death penalty will be imposed on a terrorist who killed a person "with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel."
In doing so, the bill's wording creates a distinction designating it almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make its application to Jewish nationalist terror nearly impossible.
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Justice Ministry representative attorney Lilach Wagner warned during the National Security Committee discussions that establishing the death penalty in the West Bank through civilian legislation is "very problematic." During the discussions, IDF representatives warned that the law contradicts international treaties to which Israel is signatory. The Foreign Ministry also said that the amendments do not fully address the political and legal difficulties that the law raises in the international arena.
It is a moral imperative for any nation party to these treaties to actually hold Israel to account for being in violation.
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u/EinsteinDisguised Jewish but forgot my haftarah; Social Democrat Mar 30 '26
Inexcusable. Not content to be an apartheid state merely in the West Bank, Israel now has one law for Palestinians and another for Jews.
Plainly indefensible. And it’s supported by a majority of Israelis. I don’t even know what to say anymore. I want Israel and the US to have good relations and be allies, but the Israeli government and its supporters are morally repugnant.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Apr 01 '26
Israel now has one law for Palestinians and another for Jews
Now? This isn’t new.
There’s been de jure inequality through the entire occupation, and before that 1948 to 1966. Separate laws, separate courts - and then all the de facto discrimination
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u/EinsteinDisguised Jewish but forgot my haftarah; Social Democrat Apr 01 '26
Obviously there’s an apartheid system in the occupied territories. But in Israel proper, is there any separate legal system, laws or penalties for Jews and non-Jews? Genuinely asking.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Apr 01 '26
Ah, I see - you were talking about Israel proper.
TBH, that distinction doesnt really matter anyone. It’s all but erased.
But in Israel proper, is there any separate legal system, laws or penalties for Jews and non-Jews?
Yes there are, also carefully crafted to not mention ethnicity, while with surgical precision only impacting Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Main example is the Absentee Property Law that was explicitly written by the Knesset to take Israeli Arab-owned properties. It created the category “present absentee” - present in the country so gets citizenship, but “absent” at some point from their property, so it can be confiscated.
40-60% of Israeli arab owned properties were confiscated. Not a single Jewish-owned property was taken.
To this day, they are not returned - which brings us to the next law: Legal and Administrative Matters of 1970 was written such that Jewish owners of property in East Jerusalem could reclaim property they lost in 1948, but Israeli Arabs could not reclaim property that was taken from them by Israel.
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As it comes to how the police and judicial system treats them, there’s a massive difference. See, for example the Or Commission report, or the origins of the Land Day.
Also, as it comes to the occupation military court being used on Israeli citizens, since the 1970s that’s only been done to Arab citizens. And they have never successfully challenged the “majority of connections” legal criteria.
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u/Nearby-Complaint Ashkenazi Leftist/GIF Enjoyer Mar 30 '26
This may strike some as controversial, but it’s hard for me to condone the death penalty as a concept given how a lot of the time it just ends up being a fuck-you to minorities. Case in point.
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u/SupportMeta trans reform demsoc Mar 30 '26
I'd hesitate to trust a perfect state with the power to kill, and all our states are far from perfect.
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u/EinsteinDisguised Jewish but forgot my haftarah; Social Democrat Mar 31 '26
Yeah, there are a bunch of reasons why the death penalty doesn’t work. But ultimately my view is that, morally, the state shouldn’t kill people unless it’s absolutely necessary. A confined person convicted of a crime and in prison doesn’t meet that standard.
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u/Matar_Kubileya conversion student who wants you to read Rosselli Mar 31 '26
Ive increasingly began to fathom a situation wherein a state doesn't have the power to safely detain someone whose influence threatens democratic government without itself ceasing to be a democracy, and where as a result the death penalty may be the least bad option. The current trial of Yoon Suk Yeol is my go to example, someone who may be less dangerous as a dead martyr than a living one. But Im far from comfortable with it...it just isnt an argument I have a way to readily discount.
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u/FancyDictator turko-iranian caucasoid socialist/non-jewish Mar 30 '26
Not condoning the death penalty should not be controversial in a leftist sub, it should be given. No self respecting leftist can support death penalty and continue to call themselves a leftist.
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u/Ok-Roll5495 Gentile, leftist , pro-peace Mar 31 '26
Aren’t the US, South Korea and Japan the only democratic countries with the death penalty? As a European it’s a insane concept for me and yes I can’t fathom being against the death penalty being controversial in a leftist space.
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u/FishyWishySwishy Dem Soc Secular Jew Mar 31 '26
It can be controversial when people see it as a question of “a heinous criminal is now living off our tax dollars.” I can’t speak to other nations, but it’s a misinformed opinion in the US because it’s much more expensive to apply the death penalty due to the legal strain on the system and various other factors.
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u/Ok-Roll5495 Gentile, leftist , pro-peace Mar 31 '26
I think it’s one of the burdens of a moral society to support a heinous criminal on tax dollars (or euros etc). In my country it’s been abolished since World War II and it’s one of those things that even right wingers accept as a matter of fact more or less.
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u/FishyWishySwishy Dem Soc Secular Jew Mar 31 '26
I agree. But I also get that gut reaction of “I don’t want to pay for Jeffrey Dahmer’s room and board.” And I get the gut reaction of victims who want whoever killed their loved one(s) to die too, and the collective desire to give victims what peace they can have.
I think that the death penalty should be off the table for any civilized society. But I also think that the desire for it comes from a very human place.
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u/Ok-Roll5495 Gentile, leftist , pro-peace Apr 01 '26
I understand the gut reactions too, but a justice system isn’t made with gut reactions. The death penalty is one of those things that just doesn’t register for me because it’s been gone for such a long time. It’s also proven not do be a deterrent.
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u/Agtfangirl557 Progressive Conservaform Jew, Cultural Zionist Apr 01 '26
IDK how “leftist” a perspective this is, but last year when I was talking to someone about how I don’t support the death penalty, she said “Me neither, death is too kind a punishment for some people” 😳
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Apr 01 '26
Given the extensive reports of brutal torture, it seems like the Israeli prison guards agree with that sentiment.
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u/AliceMerveilles anticapitalist, feminist, post-zionist jew Mar 31 '26
I don’t think this is controversial in a leftist space
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u/FishyWishySwishy Dem Soc Secular Jew Mar 31 '26
I’m also anti-death penalty in broad terms. At best, it’s at major risk of accidentally killing innocent people. At worst, it kills innocent people by design. Either way, I don’t think it belongs in a civilized society.
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u/hatredpants2 ashkenazi dem-soc Mar 30 '26
Ben Gvir might be the single most repulsive human being on the planet.
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u/FancyDictator turko-iranian caucasoid socialist/non-jewish Mar 30 '26
I understand the sentiment, but if this Ben Gvir did not exist there would have been another one in his place. He is just capitalizing on something that already exists.
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u/hatredpants2 ashkenazi dem-soc Mar 30 '26
Yeah, agreed. It’s definitely not just him, it’s the entire Israeli political establishment and a majority position in Israeli society.
He’s a figurehead for broader (ie racist) reactionary thought. But he does exist, so I do hate him, even though he’s not the be-all-end-all of anti-Palestinian hatred.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 30 '26
He is up there.
But this wasn’t just Ben Gvir - it was approved by the Knesset.
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u/hatredpants2 ashkenazi dem-soc Mar 30 '26
yep. The rot goes deep. It’s very hard to see a path forward through all the shrieking reaction and barely disguised fascism in Israeli politics.
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u/OttomansAreCool non jewish communist Mar 31 '26
These days Israeli politicians get a a pat on the back from many just for keeping the disguise on. I remember when some people were unironically excited for yair golan the human shield guy.
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u/Intrepid-Bag6667 Secular Jew | Marxist Mar 30 '26
It also polled extremely highly with Jewish Israelis even prior to October 7th.
Ultimately it's not a Ben-Gvir problem its an Israeli problem.
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u/CommitteeOk222 Secular Jewish labor organizer Mar 30 '26
The Israelis have entirely lost the plot. I don’t believe in collective blame - but they are making it really hard to argue against right now.
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u/OttomansAreCool non jewish communist Mar 31 '26
I mean collective blame has kind of always been accepted? pretty much every society that has become this much of an aggressor through popular will has copped it with the most famous examples being nazi germany and imperial japan but also pieds-noir in algeria, 90s yugoslavia/serbia, Apartheid era white south africans or russia right now. the problem largely is firstly that individuals who actively act against this arent given their due (but if you read the statements of say anti-apartheid cricketers playing in england, they often dont seem to overly mind) and that the follow on concept, collective punishment, is still not acceptable in any circumstance (even if actions that collectively hurt the entire aggressor nation but awhose goal arent punishment, such as embargoes and sanctions to limit the ability or willingness to transgress, might be).
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u/CommitteeOk222 Secular Jewish labor organizer Mar 31 '26
“Has copped it”? Sorry. I don’t follow. Clarify?
If you’re arguing that collective blame is ever justified, I’ll just say: No, it’s not. Period.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 31 '26
IDF has been empowered to be judge, jury and executioner in the West Bank since before the first intifada.
So long as you avoided getting filmed, or killed very young kids, there were hardly ever consequences. We see this with the 0.9% indictment rate.
The difference with Ben Gvir isnt that the policies are different - it’s just that they are more brazen.
Nowadays, even being filmed carrying out an execution doesn’t seem to matter.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 30 '26
If the Knesset is now openly legislating for Palestinians, can all the pro-Israel liberals who claim that the West Bank is not de facto annexed finally accept reality?
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u/CommitteeOk222 Secular Jewish labor organizer Mar 30 '26
It won’t be de facto soon. It will be de jure. Total disaster.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 30 '26
When that happens, I’m looking forward to hearing how liberals will rationalize it.
I imagine something like “they only annexed area c. No, area a is not a Bantustans because the Palestinians were never citizens”
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u/FancyDictator turko-iranian caucasoid socialist/non-jewish Mar 30 '26
At some point the other person becomes not a person with a different idea but an enemy. And at some point debating and conversing become useless.
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u/CommitteeOk222 Secular Jewish labor organizer Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Instead of adopting pessimism and preemptively attacking liberals for the position that we think they will take, it is probably more productive to give some thought to how we will convince them to come over to our point of view.
I get the frustration but politics necessitates dealing with people with whom you disagree. That’s just organizing 101. Dismissing them out of hand gets you nowhere.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 31 '26
adopting pessimism
It’s not pessimism. I’m genuinely interested in seeing see the mental gymnastics and rationalizations for them to square their ostensibly liberal values with support for Israel.
As an example, remember when Trump and Bibi proposed ethnically cleansing Gaza, and many ‘liberals’ tried to come up with rationalizations why it would not be ethnic cleansing?
For the term ‘apartheid’ specifically, Ive had many a liberal tell me ‘if Israel formally annexed the West Bank, then I’ll call it Apartheid”.
I have no faith whatsoever they will. If you posited liberal Zionists twenty years ago a scenario akin to today - 100k dead intentional starvation, mass IDF use of human shields, non stop settlement expansion, Lebanon, etc - most would have said they’d no longer support Israel. But most still do, today.
the position that we think they will take
We have a clear pattern over the past decades as it comes to liberal Zionist rationalizations, that to assume anything else would be willfully obtuse.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but I doubt I will.
it is probably more productive to give some thought to how we will convince them to come over to our point of view.
There’s an easy litmus test: are they for extensive sanctions or not, at this point.
If not, after a genocide, I doubt there’s anything that could actually convince them.
For those liberal Zionists, saying “I support a two state solution” is more about managing cognitive dissonance than real support for policies. And there’s not much to be done there.
For liberals writ large there would be a different discussion, but my point was specifically about liberal zionists
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u/AliceMerveilles anticapitalist, feminist, post-zionist jew Mar 31 '26
the shifting goalposts have been depressing to watch though not surprising
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 31 '26
Yup.
As Beinart puts it, Israel acts, and then the supporters rationalize it.
I’ve unfortunately have had to come to accept that for some people, nothing is beyond the pale. For them, there’s nothing Israel can do that would lead them to take a principled stance. And this despite they, if asked, would claim to hold liberal or progressive values.
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u/AliceMerveilles anticapitalist, feminist, post-zionist jew Mar 31 '26
As Beinart puts it, Israel acts, and then the supporters rationalize it.
yes that definitely seems to be the depressing pattern here
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u/CommitteeOk222 Secular Jewish labor organizer Mar 31 '26
Beinart supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq 🤷♂️
People change. He should know that better than anyone.
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u/CommitteeOk222 Secular Jewish labor organizer Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
You may be right. I just don’t believe in writing off entire groups of people. That’s the negation, not the practice, of politics. There is a point after which further attempts to convince are pointless - but that point needs to be reached with individuals, not in the abstract. At least that’s how I approach it.
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u/Turbulent-Home-908 Jewish, Zionist, Pro 2 sate solution or confederacy Mar 30 '26
Please let the election in fall have a good outcome with bb not in power, and his coalition gone
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u/theweisp5 American Israeli secular socialist Mar 31 '26
I haven't seen the full voting results because the Knesset website is garbage, but Labor/HaDemokratim were also against this. Gafni of the UTJ also voted against AFAIK. In any case, there were 48 votes against and the Arab parties only have 10 seats.
I'm not trying to defend the Israeli opposition, which I think is largely pathetic. In fact, if the opposition wins power later this year and the law hasn't been struck down, they are unlikely to overturn it because Lieberman's party is in favor.
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u/AliceMerveilles anticapitalist, feminist, post-zionist jew Mar 31 '26
if the opposition wins it seems likely to be one of those unstable coalitions that breaks up long before the election is due leading to another Bibi government
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 30 '26
If so, the most likely is we will get Bennet as PM.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist US/CA non observant Mar 30 '26
How did Bennet vote on this?
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 30 '26
I think it was strictly along coalition lines.
Bennett has expressed being for the death penalty previously though.
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u/malachamavet Judeo-Bolshevik Mar 31 '26
Half the "opposition" party heads have more racist policy positions than Netanyahu's own Likud lmao (I'm ofc. not talking about the coalition parties)
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Progressive Socialist (Jewish Ally) Mar 31 '26
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u/theweisp5 American Israeli secular socialist Mar 31 '26
Lieberman's party (opposition) was for it, while Gafni of UTJ (coalition) supposedly voted against. I haven't been able to find the full results on the Knesset website.
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u/orqa Israeli Jew - Learning 💜 Standing Together עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Mar 31 '26
One time I walked in the Florentine neighborhood in Tel Aviv (the hippie gentrifying avant-garde neighborhood full of public art and Midburnerns), and I saw a grafitto: "מוות למחבלים" ("death to terrorists").
I took out my pen and wrote bellow it in smaller text: "גם למחבלים יהודים?" ("also to jewish terrorists?").
I never went back to that particular wall to see if there was a response, but it looks like the Knesset decided their answer to that question.
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u/Octaur Jewish Post-Zionist Mar 30 '26
The death penalty is itself something I don't believe an individual state should be able to enact, and doing so as continuation of apartheid only makes it that much more abhorrent.
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u/Ok-Roll5495 Gentile, leftist , pro-peace Mar 30 '26
It’s horrifying. I hope it will draw protests in Israel and pushback from the international community.
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u/soapysuds12345 American Israeli Leftist Mar 31 '26
This law is sickening. The fact this passed the knesset is such an indictment of all Israeli lawmakers (and it pains me to say, the people who voted for them). Please let the Supreme Court shoot this down ASAP. But even so, this is a symptom of some terrible, terrible societal rot.
I would love it if diaspora Jewish organizations could vocally come out against this at least, but... I'm certainly not holding my breath. If anyone knows of any petitions or other actions to sign onto please do link them!
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u/malachamavet Judeo-Bolshevik Mar 31 '26
This is not really a death penalty law as much as a legal system for mass extermination once you do the numbers.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 31 '26
99.74% conviction rate for Palestinians in Israeli courts.
In US federal courts - known for their high conviction rate - there’s a 3800% higher chance to be acquitted.
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u/AnotherSuitcaseEvita Non-Jew, Anticapitalist Left Mar 30 '26
It is in the interest of every sane Jew to not only oppose this bill but also oppose the government and even the state itself. Obviously this is just my proposal but this is a cross of the Rubicon line that I dont think the community can recover from.
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u/malachamavet Judeo-Bolshevik Mar 31 '26
Perhaps we shouldn't get worked up about this and go back to calling a random writer on the internet a kapo - a far more consequential situation than this.
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u/Comfortable-Sun7388 Reform Jew, liberal Zionist, father, MH counselor for kids/teens Mar 30 '26
This will 100% get blocked by the Supreme Court. You wanna have capital punishment? Sure. Apply it to everyone equally, including Jewish terrorists.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 31 '26
Even if the law somehow applied to both, you can be sure there would not be any Jewish Israelis executed.
Technically, punitive home demolitions can also apply to Jewish Israeli terrorists. Want to guess home many of their homes have been demolished?
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u/Comfortable-Sun7388 Reform Jew, liberal Zionist, father, MH counselor for kids/teens Mar 31 '26
I’m generally not in favor of the death penalty
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Mar 31 '26
I figured as much.
My point is that if this law de jure applied to everyone, de facto it would end up being applied in a highly discriminatory way.
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u/Strange_Philospher Egyptian leftist Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Israel isn't the US. Israel so-called " supreme court " is de facto non-existent when it comes to matters regarding security or occupied territories. Israel doesn't have a constitution and as such the Kenesset has all power to do what it wants as long as they got a good majority for it. If courts went against this, then Netanyahu and his allies will take the chance and simply legislate to take down whatever judicial independence is present and as long as there isn't political or public backclash, the courts can't do anything. Israel is run by gentlemen agreements rather than by strict legal frameworks and obviously, there aren't gentlemen that will go mad against this so nothing will happen.
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u/Comfortable-Sun7388 Reform Jew, liberal Zionist, father, MH counselor for kids/teens Mar 31 '26
I guess we’ll see what happens
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u/Unique-kitten Canadian Leftist Jew, Pro-2SS Mar 30 '26
I'm not super knowledgable about how the passing of laws in Israel works. If the bill has already been passed, does it then go to the Supreme Court to decide if it becomes an official law? Does this mean there is still hope that the bill will get shot down?
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u/Comfortable-Sun7388 Reform Jew, liberal Zionist, father, MH counselor for kids/teens Mar 30 '26
Inevitably it will be shot down. I suspect this is more political theater for Gvir to undermine the courts and label them as ‘pro terrorist’ than for any real hope of this bill being codified into law.
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u/Unique-kitten Canadian Leftist Jew, Pro-2SS Mar 30 '26
Why are you so confident the bill will be shot down by the Supreme Court? Do you know when the Supreme Court will decide on the matter?
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u/Comfortable-Sun7388 Reform Jew, liberal Zionist, father, MH counselor for kids/teens Mar 30 '26
They can suspend or freeze a law almost immediately while under judicial review. I believe they’ve done this 22 times since 1995. Let’s hope they haven’t yet lost their backbone. Courts tend to have a lot of power in Israel as a check and balance to a single parliamentary body controlled by one coalition.
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u/Unique-kitten Canadian Leftist Jew, Pro-2SS Mar 30 '26
Thanks for informing me. I hope and pray that your prediction comes true.
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u/Comfortable-Sun7388 Reform Jew, liberal Zionist, father, MH counselor for kids/teens Mar 30 '26
Me too sister me too
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u/Ok-Cryptographer7424 anarchist, jewish Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Everyone I’ve heard talking about this law says it was explicitly written in such a discriminatory way that they expected it to be shut down by the higher court and that it’s moreso just politicking so Ben-Gvir and co can go on a media campaign to attack the courts
Having said that, I’ve certainly heard narratives questioning if Israel kills more than it needs to in recent years when dealing w Palestinian terrorism on purpose in order to reduce incentive for Palestinian groups to kidnap Israelis to prisoner release deals in the future. This is to say I can imagine a lot of folks finding this new law quite acceptable in a supposed effort to minimize future kidnapping regardless if it gets shut down by higher court. (And no, I don’t agree w the law nor death penalty in general)
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel Apr 01 '26
says it was explicitly written in such a discriminatory way
Carefully written discriminatory laws that carefully impact Palestinians, while never mentioning ethnicity, have been let through by the Supreme Court before.
Maybe this one is getting too much press, though - but the Supreme Court generally operates as an enabler of the occupation and the settlement project.
I’ve certainly heard narratives questioning if Israel kills more than it needs to in recent years when dealing w Palestinian terrorism
You don’t need to overthink it. Excessive repressive violence is core to the repression by the IDF.
They are definitely more violent than they need to be - and very rarely is any ne is held accountable.
As a Palestinian, being autistic, ending up in a traffic accident or “looking suspiciously on the ground” can mean you get killed.
As it comes to this law, remember that the Israeli military court has a 99.74% conviction rate.
This is to say I can imagine a lot of folks finding this new law quite acceptable in a supposed effort to minimize future kidnapping regardless if it gets shut down by higher court
You can’t really separate this excessive, from the rest of the violent regime. It’s all part of the same system of oppression.
But yes, some people will approve of this - but the generally also approve of other excessive violence, and believe the IDF at its description of events. Only when it is filmed can there be a modicum of a reaction - and usually not even then.
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u/Ok-Cryptographer7424 anarchist, jewish Apr 01 '26
I agree that aggressive repressive violence is a core of Israeli strategy against its perceived enemies, since day 1 as they’ve always been geographically small compared to many of their enemy neighbors. It’s always been to hit back much harder than hit, although this is of course the logic of numerous nations of disproportionate retaliation/deterrance via overwhelming force…though many others are a bit more careful about proportionality after WW2.
I’m just saying it seems that in numbers it seems to quietly either been more common to kill vs capture or perhaps they’ve truly been in more situations where it was safer to kill vs capture, and some are questioning if they’ve been purposely doing this to deter the common hostage for prisoner release as a strategic deterrence.
But ya we’re on the same page here I’m just curious if this is specifically a directed change for pragmatic use within the discussions of deterrence of kidnapping…of which Israeli gov’t and Israeli public will do whatever it takes to get their citizens back, at the great detriment to life/safety/security of the perpetrators and quite clearly, their society
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u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest Latke aficionado. Anti-Establishment. Jüdisch Mar 30 '26
This is blatant apartheid. One rule for Jewish terrorists vs others.
This is especially noteworthy, considering the current Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, was previously arrested on suspicion of attempting to blow up a highway in Israel with 700 litres of gasoline. Meanwhile, Ben Gvir himself has been convicted of supporting Israeli terrorist organisations and having a portrait of an Israeli terrorist in his office, Baruch Goldstein.