EU/Israel: Adoption of Death Penalty Law by the Israeli Knesset Requires Urgent EU Measures – Joint Statement

‘The rope is for Arabs only’: Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians recycles a colonial playbook

This story originally appeared in Mondoweiss on April 02, 2026. It is shared here with permission. 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 whi…

Israel’s Palestinian-Only Death Penalty Law Draws on Britain’s Colonial Playbook

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… Source

Rights Groups Demand EU Suspend Trade Deal With Israel Over 'Appalling' Death Penalty Law

Global criticism mounts after Israeli lawmakers approve a death penalty law targeting Palestinians, including calls for the EU to suspend a key trade deal.

EU/Israel: Adoption of death penalty law by the Israeli Knesset requires urgent EU measures – Joint statement

As humanitarian and human rights organisations that have worked for years in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, we are appalled by the Israeli Knesset’s decision to approve a bill that makes death penalty effectively mandatory in the West Bank and which will de facto apply exclusively to Palestinians. On 30 March, the Knesset approved […]

Israel adopts the death penalty only for Palestinians

By a vote of 62 to 48, Israel’s Knesset approved a law Monday enshrining the death penalty as the default punishment for Palestinians who carry out an “act of terrorism” on citizens of Israel.